ἄβυσσος

ἀ- (a-) +‎ βυθός (buthós, “depth of the sea”) Compare Sanskrit अगाध (agādha, “fathomless; abyss, chasm”).

ἄβῠσσος • (ábŭssos) m or f (neuter ἄβυσσον); second declension

1. bottomless, boundless
2. unfathomable

ἄβῠσσος • (ábŭssos) f (genitive ἀβύσσου); second declension

1. bottomless pit, abyss
2. the subterranean world of the dead: abyss

• Greek: άβυσσος (ávyssos)
• → Latin: abyssus (see there for further descendants)

• “ἄβυσσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄβυσσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄβυσσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἄβυσσος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G12 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abysmal idem, page 5.
  • bottomless idem, page 90.
  • boundless idem, page 91.
  • cavernous idem, page 119.
  • unfathomable idem, page 918.
  • vast idem, page 945.
  • yawning idem, page 995.