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Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /býs.sa/ → /ˈβys.sa/ → /ˈvi.sa/
Noun
βῠ́σσᾰ • (bússa) f (genitive βῠ́σσης); first declension
- unknown kind of bird
Inflection
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /býs.sa/ → /ˈβys.sa/ → /ˈvi.sa/
Noun
βύσσα • (bússa)
- Alternative form of βυσσός (bussós)
Further reading
- “βύσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βύσσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βύσσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βύσσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 249