γλῶσσα

See also: γλώσσα

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Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• γλάσσα (glássa) – Ionic
• γλῶττα (glôtta) – Attic

EtymologyEdit

Originally "provided with a point". From γλῶχες (glôkhes, “beard of corn”) (from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰs) and -ια (-ia).

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔ̂ːs.sa/ → /ˈɣlos.sa/ → /ˈɣlo.sa/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡlɔ̂ːs.sa/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlos.sa/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣlos.sa/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣlos.sa/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈɣlo.sa/

NounEdit

γλῶσσᾰ • (glôssa) f (genitive γλώσσης); first declension (Ionic)

1. a tongue
2. a language
3. the mouthpiece of a pipe

InflectionEdit

First declension of ἡ γλῶσσᾰ; τῆς γλώσσης (Ionic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ γλῶσσᾰ hē glôssa	τὼ γλώσσᾱ tṑ glṓssā	αἱ γλῶσσαι hai glôssai
Genitive	τῆς γλώσσης tês glṓssēs	τοῖν γλώσσαιν toîn glṓssain	τῶν γλωσσέων / γλωσσῶν tôn glōsséōn / glōssôn
Dative	τῇ γλώσσῃ têi glṓssēi	τοῖν γλώσσαιν toîn glṓssain	τῇσῐ(ν) γλώσσῃσῐ(ν) têisi(n) glṓssēisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν γλῶσσᾰν tḕn glôssan	τὼ γλώσσᾱ tṑ glṓssā	τᾱ̀ς γλώσσᾱς tā̀s glṓssās
Vocative	γλῶσσᾰ glôssa	γλώσσᾱ glṓssā	γλῶσσαι glôssai
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from γλῶσσα (glôssa)

• ἀγκυλόγλωσσον (ankulóglōsson)
• ἀγλωσσος (aglōssos)
• ἀλλόγλωσσος (allóglōssos)
• βαθύγλωσσος (bathúglōssos)
• βούγλωσσον (boúglōsson)
• βραδύγλωσσος (bradúglōssos)
• γλῶσσαι (glôssai)
• γλώσσαλγος (glṓssalgos)
• γλωσσάριον (glōssárion)
• γλώσσημα (glṓssēma)
• γλωσσογράφος (glōssográphos)

• γλωσσόκομος (glōssókomos)
• γλωσσοτομέ (glōssotomé)
• γλωσσώδης (glōssṓdēs)
• δίγλωσσος (díglōssos)
• ἐπιγλωσσάομαι (epiglōssáomai)
• ἐπιγλωσσίς (epiglōssís)
• ἑτερόγλωσσος (heteróglōssos)
• εὔγλωσσος (eúglōssos)
• εὐθύγλωσσος (euthúglōssos)
• ἰδιόγλωσσος (idióglōssos)
• κυνόγλωσσος (kunóglōssos)

• μελίγλωσσος (melíglōssos)
• ὁμόγλωσσος (homóglōssos)
• παλίγγλωσσος (palínglōssos)
• πλατύγλωσσος (platúglōssos)
• πολύγλωσσος (polúglōssos)
• πρόγλωσσος (próglōssos)
• ταχύγλωσσος (takhúglōssos)
• ὑπογλωσσίς (hupoglōssís)
• ὑπόγλωσσον (hupóglōsson)
• ὑπόγλωσσος (hupóglōssos)
• χαριτογλωσσος (kharitoglōssos)

DescendantsEdit

• English: gloss
• Greek: γλώσσα (glóssa)
• Italian: glossa

ReferencesEdit

• γλῶσσα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γλῶσσα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• γλῶσσα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «γλῶσσα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• γλῶσσα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «γλῶσσα» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2017)
• γλῶσσα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1100”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brogue idem, page 100.
  • dialect idem, page 222.
  • language idem, page 475.
  • mouthpiece idem, page 544.
  • speech idem, page 800.
  • taste idem, page 856.
  • tongue idem, page 880.
  • utterance idem, page 941.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill