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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Κίλιξ (Kílix) + -ισσα (-issa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kí.lis.sa/ → /ˈci.lis.sa/ → /ˈci.li.sa/
Noun
Κίλισσᾰ • (Kílissă) f (genitive Κιλίσσης); first declension
- Cilician woman
Proper noun
Κίλισσᾰ • (Kílissă) f (genitive Κιλίσσης); first declension
- a female given name meaning “Cilician woman”
Inflection
Further reading
- Κίλισσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Κίλισσα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “Κίλισσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press