ἄλυσσον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Usually derived from ἀ- (a-, “privative prefix”) +‎ λύσσα (lússa, “rage”).

Noun

ἄλυσσον • (álusson) n (genitive ἀλύσσου); second declension

1. the name of a certain plant used for curing madness; according to LSJ, specifically madwort (Farsetia clypeata → Fibigia clypeata) and Galen's madwort (Sideritis romana)

Descendants

• Greek: αλύσσο (alýsso)
• → Arabic: أَلُوسَن (ʔalūsan)
  • → Middle Armenian: ալուսան (alusan)
  • → Persian: آلوسن (âlusan)
• → Latin: alysson
  • → French: alysse, alysson
  • → Latin: alyssum
    • → English: alyssum
    • → Translingual: Alyssum

References

• “ἄλυσσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄλυσσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄλυσσος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 76
• Farsetia+clypeata at The Plant List
• Sideritis+romana at The Plant List