βύζην

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same source of βυνέω (bunéō, “to stuff, cram”) and βυζόν (buzón, “close, compact”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /býz.dɛːn/ → /ˈβy.zin/ → /ˈvi.zin/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /býz.dɛːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈby.ze̝n/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβy.zin/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvy.zin/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.zin/

Adverb

βύζην • (búzēn)

1. close pressed, closely

Further reading

• “βύζην”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βύζην”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βύζην in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βύζην in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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