πεσσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πεττός (pettós) — Attic

Etymology

Loanword of unknown origin. A Semitic etymology has been proposed, comparing Hittite [script needed] (piššu, “rock, block of stone”). According to Beekes, the word may well be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pes.sós/ → /pesˈsos/ → /peˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pes.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pesˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pesˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pesˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /peˈsos/

Noun

πεσσός • (pessós) m (genitive πεσσοῦ); second declension

1. oval shaped stone used in board games
2. board on which the game was played
3. (architecture) cubic mass of building, terrace
4. (anatomy) limbal ring

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πεσσός; τοῦ πεσσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πεσσός ho pessós	τὼ πεσσώ tṑ pessṓ	οἱ πεσσοί hoi pessoí
Genitive	τοῦ πεσσοῦ toû pessoû	τοῖν πεσσοῖν toîn pessoîn	τῶν πεσσῶν tôn pessôn
Dative	τῷ πεσσῷ tôi pessôi	τοῖν πεσσοῖν toîn pessoîn	τοῖς πεσσοῖς toîs pessoîs
Accusative	τὸν πεσσόν tòn pessón	τὼ πεσσώ tṑ pessṓ	τοὺς πεσσούς toùs pessoús
Vocative	πεσσέ pessé	πεσσώ pessṓ	πεσσοί pessoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πεσσᾰ́ρῐον (pessárion)
• πεσσείᾰ (pesseía)
• πεσσευτής (pesseutḗs)
• πεσσεύω (pesseúō)
• πεσσῐκός (pessikós)
• πέσσῐον (péssion)
• πεσσονομέω (pessonoméō)
• πεσσοποιέομαι (pessopoiéomai)

 

Descendants

• Greek: πεσσός (pessós)
• → Latin: pessus, pessum

Further reading

• “πεσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πεσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πεσσός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πεσσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πεσσός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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
• Zubatý, Josef (1894) “Slavische Etymologien”, in Archiv für slavische Philologie (in German), volume 16, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, pages 407–408 Nr. 43