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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formed from νέος (néos, “new”), probably after the example of περισσός (perissós, “extraordinary, prodigious”), ἔπισσαι (épissai) or μέτασσαι (métassai).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne.os.sós/ → /ne.osˈsos/ → /ne.oˈsos/
Noun
νεοσσός • (neossós) m (genitive νεοσσοῦ); second declension
- young bird, nestling, chick
- any young animal
- (in the plural) young bees
- yolk of an egg
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Further reading
- “νεοσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νεοσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νεοσσός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νεοσσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νεοσσός 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