βήσσαλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin bessālis (“of eight unciae”). The original Latin term was used to describe to describe the dimensions of building materials; this usage may have led it to the term being adopted into Greek as a term for bricks.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bɛ̌ːs.sa.lon/ → /ˈβis.sa.lon/ → /ˈvi.sa.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bɛ̌ːs.sa.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbe̝s.sa.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβis.sa.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvis.sa.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.sa.lon/

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Noun

βήσσαλον • (bḗssalon) n (genitive βήσσαλου); second declension

1. (Byzantine) brick

Declension

Second declension of τὸ βήσσαλον; τοῦ βησσάλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βήσσαλον tò bḗssalon	τὼ βησσάλω tṑ bēssálō	τᾰ̀ βήσσαλᾰ tằ bḗssală
Genitive	τοῦ βησσάλου toû bēssálou	τοῖν βησσάλοιν toîn bēssáloin	τῶν βησσάλων tôn bēssálōn
Dative	τῷ βησσάλῳ tôi bēssálōi	τοῖν βησσάλοιν toîn bēssáloin	τοῖς βησσάλοις toîs bēssálois
Accusative	τὸ βήσσαλον tò bḗssalon	τὼ βησσάλω tṑ bēssálō	τᾰ̀ βήσσαλᾰ tằ bḗssală
Vocative	βήσσαλον bḗssalon	βησσάλω bēssálō	βήσσαλᾰ bḗssală
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Alternative forms

• βήσαλον (bḗsalon)

Derived terms

• βησσαλωτός (bēssalōtós)
• βησσαλικός (bēssalikós)

Descendants

• Greek: βότσαλο (vótsalo)

References

• βήσσαλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “βήσσαλον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• 1900, Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, Joseph Henry Thayer, Henry Drisler, Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods (From B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100)‎^[1] (in English), C. Scribner's Sons, page 307: