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Ancient Greek
Etymology
No certain etymology. Traditionally analyzed as *πῖδ-σος, related to πῖδαξ (pîdax, “spring, fountain”); this is rejected by Furnée, who takes the alternation δ/σ to point to Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pîː.sos/ → /ˈpi.sos/ → /ˈpi.sos/
Noun
πῖσος • (pîsos) n (genitive πῑ́σεος); third declension
- (usually in the plural) meadow
- Synonym: λειμών (leimṓn)
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Further reading
- “πῖσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πῖσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πῖσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πῖσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πῖσος 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) “πῖσος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1197