The corpus record

ἄβυσσος

abussos

bottomless, unfathomed

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Where it lives

Odae 4 · 9.84/10k
Jonas 1 · 9.51/10k
Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
Revelation 7 · 7.08/10k
Job 7 · 5.25/10k
Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
Psalmi 13 · 3.8/10k
Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
Siracides 6 · 3.25/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 1 · 2.1/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἄβυσσος · abyssos — LSJ

bottomless, unfathomed, unfathomable, boundless

bottomless, unfathomed, πηγαί Hdt. 2.28; ἄτης ἄβυσσον πέλαγος A. Supp. 470; χάσματα E. Ph. 1605; λίμνη Ar. Ra. 137: generally, unfathomable, boundless, πλοῦτος A. Th. 948; ἀργύριον Ar. Lys. 174; φρένα Δίαν καθορᾶν, ὄψιν ἄβυσσον A. Supp. 1058.

II the great deep, the abyss, underworld, the infinite void

ἡ ἄ. the great deep, LXX Ge. 1.2, etc.: the abyss, underworld, Ev.Luc. 8.31, Ep.Rom. 10.7, Apoc. 9.1, etc.; the infinite void, PMag.Par. 1.1120, cf. PMag.Lond. 121.261.

In the wild

ἄβυσσος · abyssos Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 947–948
ἄβυσσον · abysson Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 1057–1058
ἄβυσσον · abysson Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 470–471
ἄβυσσον · abysson Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.5 (DIORISIS sentence 3331)
ἄβυσσα · abyssa Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 909)
ἀβύσσους · abyssous Herodotus, Histories 2.28.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1710)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἄβυσσος (scan p. 54; entry #61).

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