πίσσα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πίττα (pítta) — Attic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”). Cognate with Latin pix (“pitch”), Lithuanian pikis (“pitch”), Latin pīnus (“pine”), fat. Perhaps also connected to πίτυς (pítus, “pine”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pís.sa/ → /ˈpis.sa/ → /ˈpi.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pís.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/

Noun

πίσσᾰ • (píssa) f (genitive πίσσης); first declension

1. pitch
2. resin used for treating wine jars

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πῐ́σσᾰ; τῆς πῐ́σσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῐ́σσᾰ hē píssa	τὼ πῐ́σσᾱ tṑ píssā	αἱ πῐ́σσαι hai píssai
Genitive	τῆς πῐ́σσης tês píssēs	τοῖν πῐ́σσαιν toîn píssain	τῶν πῐσσῶν tôn pissôn
Dative	τῇ πῐ́σσῃ têi píssēi	τοῖν πῐ́σσαιν toîn píssain	ταῖς πῐ́σσαις taîs píssais
Accusative	τὴν πῐ́σσᾰν tḕn píssan	τὼ πῐ́σσᾱ tṑ píssā	τᾱ̀ς πῐ́σσᾱς tā̀s píssās
Vocative	πῐ́σσᾰ píssa	πῐ́σσᾱ píssā	πῐ́σσαι píssai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πισσαλιφής (pissaliphḗs)
• πισσαλοιφέω (pissaloiphéō)
• πίσσανθος (píssanthos)
• πισσάριον (pissárion)
• πισσάσφαλτος (pissásphaltos)
• πισσέλαιον (pissélaion)
• πισσήεις (pissḗeis)
• πισσήρης (pissḗrēs)
• πισσηρός (pissērós)
• πίσσησις (píssēsis)
• πισσίζω (pissízō)
• πίσσινος (píssinos)
• πίσσιος (píssios)
• πισσίτης (pissítēs)
• πισσοειδής (pissoeidḗs)
• πισσοκάμινος (pissokáminos)
• πισσόκαπνος (pissókapnos)
• πισσοκαυτέω (pissokautéō)
• πισσόκηρος (pissókēros)
• πισσοκοπέω (pissokopéō)
• πισσοκώνητος (pissokṓnētos)
• πισσοκωνία (pissokōnía)
• πισσοτρόφος (pissotróphos)
• πισσουργός (pissourgós)
• πισσόχριστος (pissókhristos)
• πισσόω (pissóō)
• πισσώδης (pissṓdēs)
• πίσσωσις (píssōsis)
• πισσωτής (pissōtḗs)
• πισσωτός (pissōtós)

 

Descendants

• Greek: πίσσα (píssa)

References

• “πίσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πίσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πίσσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πιττά (pittá, “pitch, tar”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”).

Noun

πίσσα • (píssa) f (plural πίσσες)

1. tar, pitch, coal tar
2. black
3. (Cyprus) thrush

Declension

Declension of πίσσα

	singular	plural
nominative	πίσσα •	πίσσες •
genitive	πίσσας •	πισσών •
accusative	πίσσα •	πίσσες •
vocative	πίσσα •	πίσσες •

Synonyms

• (thrush): τσίχλα f (tsíchla)