ἄλυσσον

Ancient Greek

Usually derived from ἀ- (a-, “privative prefix”) +‎ λύσσα (lússa, “rage”).

ἄλυσσον • (álusson) n (genitive ἀλύσσου); second declension

name of a certain plant used for curing madness; according to LSJ, specifically madwort (Farsetia clypeata → Fibigia clypeata) and Galen's madwort (Sideritis romana)

Greek: αλύσσο (alýsso)
→ Arabic: أَلُوسَن (ʔalūsan)
- → Middle Armenian: ալուսան (alusan)
- → Persian: آلوسن (âlusan)
→ Latin: alysson
- → French: alysse, alysson
- → Latin: alyssum
  - → English: alyssum
  - → Translingual: Alyssum

“ἄλυσσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἄλυσσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἄλυσσος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 76
Farsetia+clypeata at The Plant List
Sideritis+romana at The Plant List

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