ὑσσός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Technical word of uncertain origin. According to Beekes, the word could well be of Pre-Greek origin

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hys.sós/ → /ysˈsos/ → /iˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hys.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ysˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ysˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ysˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈsos/

Noun

ὑσσός • (hussós) m (genitive ὑσσοῦ); second declension

1. A javelin

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὑσσός; τοῦ ὑσσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὑσσός ho hussós	τὼ ὑσσώ tṑ hussṓ	οἱ ὑσσοί hoi hussoí
Genitive	τοῦ ὑσσοῦ toû hussoû	τοῖν ὑσσοῖν toîn hussoîn	τῶν ὑσσῶν tôn hussôn
Dative	τῷ ὑσσῷ tôi hussôi	τοῖν ὑσσοῖν toîn hussoîn	τοῖς ὑσσοῖς toîs hussoîs
Accusative	τὸν ὑσσόν tòn hussón	τὼ ὑσσώ tṑ hussṓ	τοὺς ὑσσούς toùs hussoús
Vocative	ὑσσέ hussé	ὑσσώ hussṓ	ὑσσοί hussoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ὑσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑσσός 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