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Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nŷː.sa/ → /ˈny.sa/ → /ˈni.sa/
Proper noun
Νῦσᾰ • (Nûsa) f (genitive Νῡ́σης); first declension
- (Greek mythology) Nysa (mountainous land where the Hyades raised the infant god Dionysus)
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References
- “Νῦσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Νῦσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018
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