abyssus
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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 Latin) 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 |
---|---|---|
Nominative | abyssus | abyssī |
Genitive | abyssī | abyssōrum |
Dative | abyssō | abyssīs |
Accusative | abyssum | abyssōs |
Ablative | abyssō | abyssīs |
Vocative | abysse | abyssī |
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Descendants[edit]
- Inherited forms:
- Ancient borrowings:
- Later borrowings:
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)
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