οὖσον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unclear. Von Wilamovitz compares σοῦσον (soûson, “lily”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ûː.son/ → /ˈu.son/ → /ˈu.son/

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

Noun

οὖσον • (oûson) n (genitive οὔσου); second declension

1. (mostly in the plural) ship's tackle, ropes

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ οὖσον; τοῦ οὔσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ οὖσον tò oûson	τὼ οὔσω tṑ oúsō	τᾰ̀ οὖσᾰ tà oûsa
Genitive	τοῦ οὔσου toû oúsou	τοῖν οὔσοιν toîn oúsoin	τῶν οὔσων tôn oúsōn
Dative	τῷ οὔσῳ tôi oúsōi	τοῖν οὔσοιν toîn oúsoin	τοῖς οὔσοις toîs oúsois
Accusative	τὸ οὖσον tò oûson	τὼ οὔσω tṑ oúsō	τᾰ̀ οὖσᾰ tà oûsa
Vocative	οὖσον oûson	οὔσω oúsō	οὖσᾰ oûsa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “οὖσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οὖσον 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