πίσσα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πίττα (pítta) — Attic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *píťťa, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“pitch, resin”). Cognate with Latin pix, Proto-Slavic *pьkъlъ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pís.sa/ → /ˈpis.sa/ → /ˈpi.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pís.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/

Noun

πίσσᾰ • (píssă) f (genitive πίσσης); first declension

1. pitch
2. resin used for treating wine jars

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πῐ́σσᾰ; τῆς πῐ́σσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῐ́σσᾰ hē pĭ́ssă	τὼ πῐ́σσᾱ tṑ pĭ́ssā	αἱ πῐ́σσαι hai pĭ́ssai
Genitive	τῆς πῐ́σσης tês pĭ́ssēs	τοῖν πῐ́σσαιν toîn pĭ́ssain	τῶν πῐσσῶν tôn pĭssôn
Dative	τῇ πῐ́σσῃ têi pĭ́ssēi	τοῖν πῐ́σσαιν toîn pĭ́ssain	ταῖς πῐ́σσαις taîs pĭ́ssais
Accusative	τὴν πῐ́σσᾰν tḕn pĭ́ssăn	τὼ πῐ́σσᾱ tṑ pĭ́ssā	τᾱ̀ς πῐ́σσᾱς tā̀s pĭ́ssās
Vocative	πῐ́σσᾰ pĭ́ssă	πῐ́σσᾱ pĭ́ssā	πῐ́σσαι pĭ́ssai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πισσαλιφής (pissaliphḗs)
• πισσαλοιφέω (pissaloiphéō)
• πίσσανθος (píssanthos)
• πισσάριον (pissárion)
• πισσάσφαλτος (pissásphaltos)
• πισσέλαιον (pissélaion)
• πισσήεις (pissḗeis)
• πισσήρης (pissḗrēs)
• πισσηρός (pissērós)
• πίσσησις (píssēsis)
• πισσίζω (pissízō)
• πίσσινος (píssinos)
• πισσίον (pissíon)
• πίσσιος (píssios)
• πισσίτης (pissítēs)
• πισσοειδής (pissoeidḗs)
• πισσοκάμινος (pissokáminos)
• πισσόκαπνος (pissókapnos)
• πισσοκαυτέω (pissokautéō)
• πισσόκηρος (pissókēros)
• πισσοκοπέω (pissokopéō)
• πισσοκώνητος (pissokṓnētos)
• πισσοκωνία (pissokōnía)
• πισσοτρόφος (pissotróphos)
• πισσουργός (pissourgós)
• πισσόχριστος (pissókhristos)
• πισσόω (pissóō)
• πισσώδης (pissṓdēs)
• πίσσωσις (píssōsis)
• πισσωτής (pissōtḗs)
• πισσωτός (pissōtós)
• πιττάκιον (pittákion)

Descendants

• Greek: πίσσα (píssa)
• Pontic Greek: πίσσα (píssa)
• → Ge'ez: ፔሳ (pesa, “pitch, tar”), ፒሳ (pisa)
• →? Laz: ფისა (pisa)
• →? Mingrelian: ფირსა (pirsa)
• →? Old Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
  • Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
    • → Armenian: փիս (pʻis), փիսի (pʻisi)
    • → Bats: ფის (pis)
    • → Ossetian: писи (pisi), песи (pesi)
• →? Svan: ფისე (pise)
• → Turkish: pise, pusa, püse, bise, pis, püs, pus, piz, püz, pürz (dialectal)

References

• “πίσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πίσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πίσσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/
• (Cypriot Greek)IPA^(key): /ˈpis.sa/
• Hyphenation: πίσ‧σα

Noun

πίσσα • (píssa) f (plural πίσσες)

1. tar, pitch, coal tar
2. black
3. (Cyprus) thrush

Declension

Declension of πίσσα

	singular	plural
nominative	πίσσα (píssa)	πίσσες (písses)
genitive	πίσσας (píssas)	πισσών (pissón)
accusative	πίσσα (píssa)	πίσσες (písses)
vocative	πίσσα (píssa)	πίσσες (písses)

Synonyms

• (thrush): τσίχλα f (tsíchla)

Further reading

• πίσσα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el