Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νύσσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νύσσα νύσσης

Structure: νυσς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: nu/ssw

Sense

  1. posts
  2. the turning-post
  3. the starting post, the winning post

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τοῖσι δ’ ἀπὸ νύσσησ τέτατο δρόμοσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 12:1)
  • τοῖσι δ’ ἀπὸ νύσσησ τέτατο δρόμοσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 69:12)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ νύσσησ μιᾶσ Ἱπποδαμείασ ἐστὶν εἰκὼν χαλκῆ, ταινίαν τε ἔχουσα καὶ ἀναδεῖν τὸν Πέλοπα μέλλουσα ἐπὶ τῇ νίκῃ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 29:2)

Synonyms

  1. posts

  2. the turning-post

  3. the starting post

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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