πίσσα

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *píťťa, suggested to be from Proto-Indo-European *píts-ih₂ ~ *pits-yéh₂, from *pī́ts (“resin”) +‎ *-ih₂, cognate with Albanian píshë (“pine tree”), and related to πίτυς (pítus, “pine”).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

πίσσᾰ • (píssa) f (genitive πίσσης); first declension

  1. pitch
  2. resin used for treating wine jars

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πῐ́σσᾰ; τῆς πῐ́σσης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ πῐ́σσᾰ
hē píssa 		τὼ πῐ́σσᾱ
tṑ píssā 		αἱ πῐ́σσαι
hai píssai
Genitive τῆς πῐ́σσης
tês píssēs 		τοῖν πῐ́σσαιν
toîn píssain 		τῶν πῐσσῶν
tôn pissôn
Dative τῇ πῐ́σσῃ
têi píssēi 		τοῖν πῐ́σσαιν
toîn píssain 		ταῖς πῐ́σσαις
taîs píssais
Accusative τὴν πῐ́σσᾰν
tḕn píssan 		τὼ πῐ́σσᾱ
tṑ píssā 		τᾱ̀ς πῐ́σσᾱς
tā̀s píssās
Vocative πῐ́σσᾰ
píssa 		πῐ́σσᾱ
píssā 		πῐ́σσαι
píssai
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Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “pei̯(ə)- pī̆- ,”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 793
  2. ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 282: “*pikya”
  3. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) “písh/ë,-a”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πίττα (pítta, “pitch, tar”).

Noun

πίσσα • (píssa) f (plural πίσσες)

  1. tar, pitch, coal tar
  2. black
  3. (Cyprus) thrush

Declension

Declension of πίσσα
singular plural
nominative πίσσα • πίσσες •
genitive πίσσας • πισσών •
accusative πίσσα • πίσσες •
vocative πίσσα • πίσσες •

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