ἄβυσσος
See also: άβυσσος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editἀ- (a-) + βυθός (buthós, “depth of the sea”) Compare Sanskrit अगाध (agādha, “fathomless; abyss, chasm”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.bys.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.bys.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.βys.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.vys.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.vi.sos/
Adjective
editἄβῠσσος • (ábussos) m or f (neuter ἄβυσσον); second declension
Inflection
editNumber | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | ἄβυσσος ábussos |
ἄβυσσον ábusson |
ἀβύσσω abússō |
ἀβύσσω abússō |
ἄβυσσοι ábussoi |
ἄβυσσᾰ ábussa | ||||||||
Genitive | ἀβύσσου abússou |
ἀβύσσου abússou |
ἀβύσσοιν abússoin |
ἀβύσσοιν abússoin |
ἀβύσσων abússōn |
ἀβύσσων abússōn | ||||||||
Dative | ἀβύσσῳ abússōi |
ἀβύσσῳ abússōi |
ἀβύσσοιν abússoin |
ἀβύσσοιν abússoin |
ἀβύσσοις abússois |
ἀβύσσοις abússois | ||||||||
Accusative | ἄβυσσον ábusson |
ἄβυσσον ábusson |
ἀβύσσω abússō |
ἀβύσσω abússō |
ἀβύσσους abússous |
ἄβυσσᾰ ábussa | ||||||||
Vocative | ἄβυσσε ábusse |
ἄβυσσον ábusson |
ἀβύσσω abússō |
ἀβύσσω abússō |
ἄβυσσοι ábussoi |
ἄβυσσᾰ ábussa | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ἀβύσσως abússōs |
ἀβυσσότερος abussóteros |
ἀβυσσότᾰτος abussótatos | ||||||||||||
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Noun
editἄβῠσσος • (ábussos) f (genitive ἀβύσσου); second declension
- bottomless pit, abyss
- the subterranean world of the dead: abyss
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἄβυσσος hē ábussos |
τὼ ἀβύσσω tṑ abússō |
αἱ ἄβυσσοι hai ábussoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀβύσσου tês abússou |
τοῖν ἀβύσσοιν toîn abússoin |
τῶν ἀβύσσων tôn abússōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀβύσσῳ têi abússōi |
τοῖν ἀβύσσοιν toîn abússoin |
ταῖς ἀβύσσοις taîs abússois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἄβυσσον tḕn ábusson |
τὼ ἀβύσσω tṑ abússō |
τᾱ̀ς ἀβύσσους tā̀s abússous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄβυσσε ábusse |
ἀβύσσω abússō |
ἄβυσσοι ábussoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “ἄβυσσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄβυσσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄβυσσος 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
- ἄβυσσος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G12 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- abysmal idem, page 5.
- bottomless idem, page 90.
- boundless idem, page 91.
- cavernous idem, page 119.
- unfathomable idem, page 918.
- vast idem, page 945.
- yawning idem, page 995.
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