Issus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin Issus, from Ancient Greek Ἰσσός (Issós). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɪsəs/ Rhymes: -ɪsəs === Proper noun === Issus (historical) An ancient settlement in Cilicia, modern Hatay Province, Turkey, where in 333 BCE Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III. ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰσσός (Issós). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪs.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈis.sus] === Proper noun === Issus f sg (genitive Issī); second declension Issus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only. ==== Related terms ==== Issicus ==== Descendants ==== → Translingual: Issus === Further reading === “Issus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press Issus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011 "Issus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “Issus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Issus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly