abyssus
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
abyssus (plural abyssi)
- Archaic form of abyss.
- 1613 November 5, Lancelot Andrewes, “A Sermon Preached before the King’s Maiestie, at White-hall […]”, in XCVI. sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrevves […], published 1629, page 935:
- He was, when there were yet no Abyssi, no depths, nor no mountaines vpon the Earth, nor the Earth it selfe […]
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄβῠσσος (ábussos, “bottomless pit”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈbys.sus/, [äˈbʏs̠ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈbis.sus/, [äˈbisːus]
Noun edit
abyssus f (genitive abyssī); second declension
- (Late Latin) an abyss
- Abyssus abyssum invocat. ― The abyss calls the abyss.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | abyssus | abyssī |
Genitive | abyssī | abyssōrum |
Dative | abyssō | abyssīs |
Accusative | abyssum | abyssōs |
Ablative | abyssō | abyssīs |
Vocative | abysse | abyssī |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
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References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “abyssus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 63
Further reading edit
- “abyssus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abyssus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)