λοῦσσον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

It may continue *λουκ-ιον (*louk-ion) as a derivative of a root noun, as is seen in Latin lūx (“light”), if from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Compare also Latin lūcus (“grove, wood”), from the same source. The etymology remains highly improbable, though.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lûːs.son/ → /ˈlus.son/ → /ˈlu.son/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lûːs.son/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈlus.son/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈlus.son/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈlus.son/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.son/

Noun

λοῦσσον • (loûsson) n (genitive λούσσου); second declension

1. (botany) white pith of the fir

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ λοῦσσον; τοῦ λούσσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λοῦσσον tò loûsson	τὼ λούσσω tṑ loússō	τᾰ̀ λοῦσσᾰ tà loûssa
Genitive	τοῦ λούσσου toû loússou	τοῖν λούσσοιν toîn loússoin	τῶν λούσσων tôn loússōn
Dative	τῷ λούσσῳ tôi loússōi	τοῖν λούσσοιν toîn loússoin	τοῖς λούσσοις toîs loússois
Accusative	τὸ λοῦσσον tò loûsson	τὼ λούσσω tṑ loússō	τᾰ̀ λοῦσσᾰ tà loûssa
Vocative	λοῦσσον loûsson	λούσσω loússō	λοῦσσᾰ loûssa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “λοῦσσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λοῦσσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN