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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Loanword of unknown origin. A Semitic etymology has been proposed, comparing Hittite (piššu, “rock, block of stone”). According to Beekes, the word may well be Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pes.sós/ → /pesˈsos/ → /peˈsos/
Noun
πεσσός • (pessós) m (genitive πεσσοῦ); second declension
- oval shaped stone used in board games
- board on which the game was played
- (architecture) cubic mass of building, terrace
- (anatomy) limbal ring
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Further reading
- “πεσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πεσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πεσσός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πεσσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πεσσός 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
- Zubatý, Josef (1894) “Slavische Etymologien”, in Archiv für slavische Philologie (in German), volume 16, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, pages 407–408 Nr. 43