Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /áβys̚sos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ávys̚sos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ávisos/

Adjective

ἄβῠσσος • ‎(ábussos) m, f ‎(neuter ἄβυσσον); second declension

1. bottomless, boundless
2. unfathomable

Inflection

Noun

ἄβῠσσος • ‎(ábussos) f ‎(genitive ἀβύσσου); second declension

1. bottomless pit, abyss
2. The subterranean world of the dead: abyss

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: abyssus

References

• ἄβυσσος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄβυσσος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἄβυσσος» 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
• «ἄβυσσος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G12”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abysmal idem, page 5.
  • bottomless idem, page 90.
  • boundless idem, page 91.
  • cavernous idem, page 119.
  • unfathomable idem, page 918.
  • vast idem, page 945.
  • yawning idem, page 995.