ἧσσα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • ἧττα (hêtta) — Attic

Etymology

Back-formation from ἥσσων (hḗssōn, “inferior, weaker”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ἧσσᾰ • (hêssă) f (genitive ἥσσης); first declension

  1. defeat, discomfiture

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἧσσᾰ; τῆς ἥσσης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ἧσσᾰ
hē hêssă 		τὼ ἥσσᾱ
tṑ hḗssā 		αἱ ἧσσαι
hai hêssai
Genitive τῆς ἥσσης
tês hḗssēs 		τοῖν ἥσσαιν
toîn hḗssain 		τῶν ἡσσῶν
tôn hēssôn
Dative τῇ ἥσσῃ
tēî hḗssēi 		τοῖν ἥσσαιν
toîn hḗssain 		ταῖς ἥσσαις
taîs hḗssais
Accusative τὴν ἧσσᾰν
tḕn hêssăn 		τὼ ἥσσᾱ
tṑ hḗssā 		τᾱ̀ς ἥσσᾱς
tā̀s hḗssās
Vocative ἧσσᾰ
hêssă 		ἥσσᾱ
hḗssā 		ἧσσαι
hêssai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: ήττα (ítta)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἦκα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 512: “DER > line 4 > ἧσσα, ἧττα”

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