βύσσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /býs.sa/ → /ˈβys.sa/ → /ˈvi.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /býs.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbys.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβys.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvys.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.sa/

Noun

βῠ́σσᾰ • (bússa) f (genitive βῠ́σσης); first declension

1. unknown kind of bird

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βῠ́σσᾰ; τῆς βῠ́σσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βῠ́σσᾰ hē bússa	τὼ βῠ́σσᾱ tṑ bússā	αἱ βῠ́σσαι hai bússai
Genitive	τῆς βῠ́σσης tês bússēs	τοῖν βῠ́σσαιν toîn bússain	τῶν βῠσσῶν tôn bussôn
Dative	τῇ βῠ́σσῃ têi bússēi	τοῖν βῠ́σσαιν toîn bússain	ταῖς βῠ́σσαις taîs bússais
Accusative	τὴν βῠ́σσᾰν tḕn bússan	τὼ βῠ́σσᾱ tṑ bússā	τᾱ̀ς βῠ́σσᾱς tā̀s bússās
Vocative	βῠ́σσᾰ bússa	βῠ́σσᾱ bússā	βῠ́σσαι bússai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /býs.sa/ → /ˈβys.sa/ → /ˈvi.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /býs.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbys.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβys.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvys.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.sa/

Noun

βύσσα • (bússa)

1. Alternative form of βυσσός (bussós)

Further reading

• “βύσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βύσσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βύσσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βύσσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 249