λύσσα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Also see λῠ́κος m (lúkos, “wolf”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lýs.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlys.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlys.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈlys.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.sa/
Noun
λύσσᾰ • (lússa) f (genitive λύσσης); first declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λῠ́σσᾰ hē lússa |
τὼ λῠ́σσᾱ tṑ lússā |
αἱ λῠ́σσαι hai lússai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λῠ́σσης tês lússēs |
τοῖν λῠ́σσαιν toîn lússain |
τῶν λῠσσῶν tôn lussôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λῠ́σσῃ têi lússēi |
τοῖν λῠ́σσαιν toîn lússain |
ταῖς λῠ́σσαις taîs lússais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λῠ́σσᾰν tḕn lússan |
τὼ λῠ́σσᾱ tṑ lússā |
τᾱ̀ς λῠ́σσᾱς tā̀s lússās | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῠ́σσᾰ lússa |
λῠ́σσᾱ lússā |
λῠ́σσαι lússai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
λυσσ- also see λῠ́κος (lúkos, “wolf”)
Related terms
- ἄλυσσον n (álusson, “madwort”)
- ἄλυσσος (álussos, “curing madness”)
- ἀλύσσω (alússō, “be uneasy, restless”)
- ἐκλυσσάω (eklussáō, “be raging”)
- κῠνόλυσσος m (kunólussos, “hydrophobia”) / κῠνόλυσσον n
- λυσσαίνω (lyssaíno, “rave”)
- λυσσαλέος (lyssaléos, “raging mad”)
- λυσσάς f (lyssás, “raging mad”)
- λυσσάω (lyssáo, “I am raging”)
- λυσσηδόν (lyssidón, “furiously, madly”, adverb)
- λυσσήεις (lyssíeis, “like madness, maniac”)
- λύσσημα n (lýssima, “fit of madness”)
- λυσσήρης (lyssíris, “raging mad”)
- λυσσητήρ (lyssitír, “one that is raging”)
- λυσσητής (lyssitís, “one that is raging”)
- λυσσητικός (lyssitikós, “driving mad”)
- λυσσόδηκτος (lyssódiktos, “bitten by a mad dog”)
- λυσσοδίωκτος (lyssodíoktos, “pursued by madness”)
- λυσσομανέω (lyssomanéo, “rage, rave”)
- λυσσομανής (lyssomanís, “raving mad”)
- λυσσομανίᾰ f (lussomanía, “paroxysm of madness”)
- λυσσόω (lyssóo, “enrage, madden”)
- λυσσώδης (lyssódis, “like one raging, frantic”)
- λυσσῶπις f (lussôpis, “with frantic glance”)
- προλυσσάω (prolyssáo, “advance raging”)
- προσλυσσάω (proslyssáo, “rage against”)
- συλλυσσάομαι (syllyssáomai, “go mad with”)
- ὑπολυσσάω (hupolussáō, “have a kind of madness”)
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λύσσα (lússa), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”).
Pronunciation
Noun
λύσσα • (lýssa) f (uncountable)
- (medicine) rabies (animal and human disease caused by species of Lyssavirus)
- Φύγε μακριά απ' αυτό το σκυλί· έχει λύσσα και αν σε δαγκώσει, τελείωσες.
- Fýge makriá ap' aftó to skylí; échei lýssa kai an se dagkósei, teleíoses.
- Get away from that dog - it has rabies and if it bites you, you're finished.
- (figuratively) rage, fierceness, fury
- Η θάλασσα χτυπούσε με λύσσα πάνω στα βράχια.
- I thálassa chtypoúse me lýssa páno sta vráchia.
- The sea fiercely (literally, with fury) bashed the rocks.
- (figuratively, followed by με or για) obsession with/for, mania with/for
- Έχω λύσσα για τον τζόγο.
- Écho lýssa gia ton tzógo.
- I am obsessed with gambling.
- overly salty food
- Αυτά τα μπιφτέκια είναι λύσσα.
- Aftá ta biftékia eínai lýssa.
- These burgers are way too salty.
- great hunger
- Ας βρούμε κάνα εστιατόριο, έχω λύσσα.
- As vroúme kána estiatório, écho lýssa.
- Let's find a restaurant, I'm famished.
Declension
λύσσα
case \ number | singular |
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nominative | λύσσα • |
genitive | λύσσας • |
accusative | λύσσα • |
vocative | λύσσα • |
Synonyms
- (rage, fury): οργή f (orgí), τρέλα f (tréla), μανία f (manía), ορμητικότητα f (ormitikótita), αλλοφροσύνη f (allofrosýni)
- (obsession, mania): μανία f (manía)
Derived terms
Expressions:
- έφαγα τα λυσσιακά μου (éfaga ta lyssiaká mou)
- λύσσαξα να (lýssaxa na)
- με έπιασε λύσσα κακιά (me épiase lýssa kakiá)
- με λύσσαξαν στο ξύλο (me lýssaxan sto xýlo)
Related terms
Related terms
- αντιλυσσικός (antilyssikós)
- λυσσαλέος (lyssaléos, “rabid, furious”) (adjective)
- λυσσάρης (lyssáris, “rabid”) (adjective)
- λυσσάρικος (lyssárikos, “rabid”) (adjective)
- λυσσασμένος (lyssasménos, “rabid”) (participle)
- λυσσάω (lyssáo, “to go rabid, to be furious”) / λυσσώ
- λυσσιακά n pl (lyssiaká)
- λυσσιατρείο n (lyssiatreío, “rabies clinic”)
- λυσσίατρος m or f (lyssíatros, “rabies doctor”)
- λυσσμανάω (lyssmanáo) / λυσσομανώ
- λυσσώδης (lyssódis, “frantic”)
- ψωμόλυσσα f (psomólyssa, “extreme hunger”)
Template:el-see, λύχνος m (lýchnos, “lamp”)
See also
- λύσσα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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