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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Without a good explanation. Compared with νύσσω (nússō, “to thrust, pierce”) as *νύκ-ια (*núk-ia, “the thrusting one”), which seems possible. According to Jüthner, the word is of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nýs.sa/ → /ˈnys.sa/ → /ˈni.sa/
Noun
νῠ́σσᾰ • (nússa) f (genitive νῠ́σσης); first declension
- turning post in a racecourse
- Synonyms: βαλβίς (balbís), καμπή (kampḗ), καμπτήρ (kamptḗr)
- starting and winning post
Inflection
Further reading
- “νύσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νύσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νύσσα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νύσσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νύσσα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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