γλῶσσα

See also: γλώσσα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γλάσσα (glássa) — Ionic
• γλῶττα (glôtta) — Attic

Etymology

Originally "provided with a point". From γλῶχες (glôkhes, “beard of corn”) (from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰs) and -ια (-ia).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔ̂ːs.sa/ → /ˈɣlos.sa/ → /ˈɣlo.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡlɔ̂ːs.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlos.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣlos.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣlos.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈɣlo.sa/

Noun

γλῶσσᾰ • (glôssa) f (genitive γλώσσης); first declension (Ionic)

1. a tongue
2. a language
3. the mouthpiece of a pipe

Inflection

First declension of ἡ γλῶσσᾰ; τῆς γλώσσης (Ionic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ γλῶσσᾰ hē glôssa	τὼ γλώσσᾱ tṑ glṓssā	αἱ γλῶσσαι hai glôssai
Genitive	τῆς γλώσσης tês glṓssēs	τοῖν γλώσσαιν toîn glṓssain	τῶν γλωσσέων / γλωσσῶν tôn glōsséōn / glōssôn
Dative	τῇ γλώσσῃ têi glṓssēi	τοῖν γλώσσαιν toîn glṓssain	τῇσῐ / τῇσῐν γλώσσῃσῐ / γλώσσῃσῐν têisi(n) glṓssēisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν γλῶσσᾰν tḕn glôssan	τὼ γλώσσᾱ tṑ glṓssā	τᾱ̀ς γλώσσᾱς tā̀s glṓssās
Vocative	γλῶσσᾰ glôssa	γλώσσᾱ glṓssā	γλῶσσαι glôssai
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Descendants

• Greek:
  • Modern Greek: γλώσσα (glóssa)
  • Tsakonian: γρούσσα (groússa)
• → Latin: glossa
  • → English: gloss
  • → Italian: glossa

References

• “γλῶσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γλῶσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “γλῶσσα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• γλῶσσα 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
• γλῶσσα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• γλῶσσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “γλῶσσα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1100 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brogue idem, page 100.
  • dialect idem, page 222.
  • language idem, page 475.
  • mouthpiece idem, page 544.
  • speech idem, page 800.
  • taste idem, page 856.
  • tongue idem, page 880.
  • utterance idem, page 941.
• 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