abyssus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin abyssus. === Noun === abyssus (plural abyssi) Archaic form of abyss. == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄβῠσσος (ábŭssos, “bottomless pit”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈbys.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈbis.sus] === Noun === abyssus f (genitive abyssī); second declension (Late Latin) an abyss Abyssus abyssum invocat. ― The abyss calls the abyss. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== *abīsmus ==== Descendants ==== === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “abyssus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 63 === Further reading === “abyssus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "abyssus", 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)