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byssus
English
Etymology
From New Latin byssus (“sea silk”), from Latin byssus (“fine cotton or cotton stuff, silk”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (bússos, “a very fine yellowish flax and the linen woven from it”), from Hebrew ?????? (búts), Aramaic ???????? (b???).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?.s?s/
Noun
byssus (usually uncountable, plural byssi or byssuses)
- An exceptionally fine and valuable fibre or cloth of ancient times. Originally used for fine flax and linens, the word was later extended to fine cottons, silks, and sea silk.
- The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured.
- (mycology) The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like.
Related terms
- byssaceous
- byssal
- byssiferous
- byssine
- byssinosis
- byssoid
- byssogenous
- byssolite
Translations
References
- The Compact edition of the Oxford English dictionary: complete text reproduced micrographically and Supplement. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1987
- Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged) 1976. G. & C. Merriam Co.
Latin
Alternative forms
- bissus
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (bússos, “a very fine yellowish flax and the linen woven from it”), from Hebrew ?????? (búts), Aramaic ????? (bus).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?bys.sus/, [?b?s???s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?bis.sus/, [?bis?us]
Noun
byssus f (genitive byss?); second declension
- byssus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
- Translingual: Byssus
References
- byssus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- byssus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- byssus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- byssus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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