Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

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

Noun

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

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

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: gloss
• Greek: γλώσσα ‎(glóssa)
• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• γλῶσσα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1100”, 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.
  • 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