λύσσα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • λύττᾰ (lútta) – Attic

Etymology

Also see λῠ́κος m (lúkos, “wolf”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation
 

Noun

λύσσᾰ • (lússa) f (genitive λύσσης); first declension

  1. rage, fury
  2. mania, raging madness
    1. fanaticism
  3. rabies (of dogs)

Inflection
First declension of ἡ λῠ́σσᾰ; τῆς λῠ́σσης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ λῠ́σσᾰ
hē lússa		 τὼ λῠ́σσᾱ
tṑ lússā		 αἱ λῠ́σσαι
hai lússai
Genitive τῆς λῠ́σσης
tês lússēs		 τοῖν λῠ́σσαιν
toîn lússain		 τῶν λῠσσῶν
tôn lussôn
Dative τῇ λῠ́σσῃ
têi lússēi		 τοῖν λῠ́σσαιν
toîn lússain		 ταῖς λῠ́σσαις
taîs lússais
Accusative τὴν λῠ́σσᾰν
tḕn lússan		 τὼ λῠ́σσᾱ
tṑ lússā		 τᾱ̀ς λῠ́σσᾱς
tā̀s lússās
Vocative λῠ́σσᾰ
lússa		 λῠ́σσᾱ
lússā		 λῠ́σσαι
lússai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

λυσσ- also see λῠ́κος (lúkos, “wolf”)

Related terms
  • ἄλυσσον n (ἄlysson, “madwort”)
  • ἄλυσσος (ἄlyssos, “curing madness”)
  • ἀλύσσω (ἀlýsso, “be uneasy, restless”)
  • ἐκλυσσάω (ἐklyssáo, “be raging”)
  • κῠνόλυσσος m (kῠnólyssos, “hydrophobia”) / κῠνόλυσσον n
  • λυσσαίνω (lyssaíno, “rave”)
  • λυσσαλέος (lyssaléos, “raging mad”)
  • λυσσάς f (lyssás, “raging mad”)
  • λυσσάω (lyssáo, “I am raging”)
  • λυσσηδόν (lyssidón, “furiously, madly”, adverb)
  • λυσσήεις (lyssíeis, “like madness, maniac”)
  • λύσσημα n (lýssima, “fit of madness”)
  • λυσσήρης (lyssíris, “raging mad”)
  • λυσσητήρ (lyssitír, “one that is raging”)
  • λυσσητής (lyssitís, “one that is raging”)
  • λυσσητικός (lyssitikós, “driving mad”)
  • λυσσόδηκτος (lyssódiktos, “bitten by a mad dog”)
  • λυσσοδίωκτος (lyssodíoktos, “pursued by madness”)
  • λυσσομανέω (lyssomanéo, “rage, rave”)
  • λυσσομανής (lyssomanís, “raving mad”)
  • λυσσομανίᾰ f (lyssomaníᾰ, “paroxysm of madness”)
  • λυσσόω (lyssóo, “enrage, madden”)
  • λυσσώδης (lyssódis, “like one raging, frantic”)
  • λυσσῶπις f (lyssῶpis, “with frantic glance”)
  • προλυσσάω (prolyssáo, “advance raging”)
  • προσλυσσάω (proslyssáo, “rage against”)
  • συλλυσσάομαι (syllyssáomai, “go mad with”)
  • ὑπολυσσάω (ὑpolyssáo, “have a kind of madness”)

Descendants
  • → English: lyssa (learned)
  • → German: Lyssa (learned)

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λύσσα (lússa), from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlisa/
  • Hyphenation: λύσ‧σα

Noun

λύσσα • (lýssa) f (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) rabies (animal and human disease caused by species of Lyssavirus)
    Φύγε μακριά απ’ αυτό το σκυλί· έχει λύσσα και αν σε δαγκώσει, τελείωσες.
    Fýge makriá ap’ aftó to skylí; échei lýssa kai an se dagkósei, teleíoses.
    Get away from that dog; it has rabies and if it bites you, you're finished.
  2. (figuratively) rage, fierceness, fury
    Η θάλασσα χτυπούσε με λύσσα πάνω στα βράχια.
    I thálassa chtypoúse me lýssa páno sta vráchia.
    The sea bashed the rocks with fury.
    Synonyms: οργή (orgí), τρέλα (tréla), μανία (manía), ορμητικότητα (ormitikótita), αλλοφροσύνη (allofrosýni)
  3. (figuratively, followed by με (me) or για (gia)) obsession with/for, mania with/for
    Έχω λύσσα για τον τζόγο.
    Écho lýssa gia ton tzógo.
    I am obsessed with gambling.
    Synonym: μανία (manía)
  4. overly salty food
    Αυτά τα μπιφτέκια είναι λύσσα.
    Aftá ta biftékia eínai lýssa.
    These burgers are way too salty.
  5. great hunger
    Ας βρούμε κάνα εστιατόριο, έχω λύσσα.
    As vroúme kána estiatório, écho lýssa.
    Let's find a restaurant, I'm famished.

Declension
  λύσσα
case     \     number singular
nominative λύσσα •
genitive λύσσας •
accusative λύσσα •
vocative λύσσα •

Derived terms
Expressions
  • έφαγα τα λυσσιακά μου (éfaga ta lyssiaká mou)
  • λύσσαξα να (lýssaxa na)
  • με έπιασε λύσσα κακιά (me épiase lýssa kakiá)
  • με λύσσαξαν στο ξύλο (me lýssaxan sto xýlo)
  • and see: λύκος m (lýkos, “wolf”)
  • and see: λύχνος m (lýchnos, “lamp”)
  • αντιλυσσικός (antilyssikós, “anti-rabic”, adjective)
  • λυσσαλέος (lyssaléos, “rabid, furious”, adjective)
  • λυσσάρης (lyssáris, “rabid”, adjective)
  • λυσσάρικος (lyssárikos, “rabid”, adjective)
  • λυσσασμένος (lyssasménos, “rabid”, participle)
  • λυσσάω (lyssáo, “to go rabid, to be furious”)
  • λυσσιακά n pl (lyssiaká)
  • λυσσιατρείο n (lyssiatreío, “rabies clinic”)
  • λυσσίατρος m or f (lyssíatros, “rabies doctor”)
  • λυσσμανάω (lyssmanáo)
  • λυσσώδης (lyssódis, “frantic”, adjective)
  • ψωμόλυσσα f (psomólyssa, “extreme hunger”)

Verb

λύσσα • (lýssa)

  1. 2nd person singular present imperfective imperative form of λυσσάω (lyssáo).
    Alternative form: λύσσαγε (lýssage)
  2. 2nd person singular simple past perfective imperative form of λυσσάω (lyssáo).
    Alternative form: λύσσαξε (lýssaxe)

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