Issus

From Latin Issus, from Ancient Greek Ἰσσός (Issós).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪsəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪsəs

Issus

1. (historical) An ancient settlement in Cilicia, modern Hatay Province, Turkey, where in 333 BCE Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III.

• Translingual: Issus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰσσός (Issós).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪs.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈis.sus]

Issus f sg (genitive Issī); second declension

1. Issus

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Issicus

• “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’s 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