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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek. Furnée compares κιθάρα (kithára), in the sense of "ivy".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kis.sós/ → /cisˈsos/ → /ciˈsos/
Noun
κισσός • (kissós) m (genitive κισσοῦ); second declension
- ivy (Hedera helix), sacred to Dionysus
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References
- “κισσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κισσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κισσός 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