φώσσων

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φώσων (phṓsōn)

Etymology

Probably an Egyptian loanword.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ːs.sɔːn/ → /ˈɸos.son/ → /ˈfo.son/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ːs.sɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰos.son/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸos.son/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfos.son/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.son/

Noun

φώσσων • (phṓssōn) m (genitive φώσσωνος); third declension

1. coarse linen garment, used in Egypt
2. sailcloth

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ φώσσων; τοῦ φώσσωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φώσσων ho phṓssōn	τὼ φώσσωνε tṑ phṓssōne	οἱ φώσσωνες hoi phṓssōnes
Genitive	τοῦ φώσσωνος toû phṓssōnos	τοῖν φωσσώνοιν toîn phōssṓnoin	τῶν φωσσώνων tôn phōssṓnōn
Dative	τῷ φώσσωνῐ tôi phṓssōnĭ	τοῖν φωσσώνοιν toîn phōssṓnoin	τοῖς φώσσωσῐ / φώσσωσῐν toîs phṓssōsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν φώσσωνᾰ tòn phṓssōnă	τὼ φώσσωνε tṑ phṓssōne	τοὺς φώσσωνᾰς toùs phṓssōnăs
Vocative	φώσσων phṓssōn	φώσσωνε phṓssōne	φώσσωνες phṓssōnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φωσσώνῐον (phōssṓnĭon)

Further reading

• “φώσσων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φώσσων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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