Ὄσσαν (Ossan)

Ὄσσαν is an Ancient Greek form of ὄσσα, meaning “rumour, voice”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Ὄσσα, “Ossa — a town of the Bisaltae, which, before the annexation of Bisaltia to the kingdom of Macedonia…”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1087: ἀκταίης ὄρνιθος ἐναίσιμον ὄσσαν ἀκούσας.

Lucian of Samosata, Contemplantes 3: … ω γὰρ ὅσα δυνατά. Ὅμηρος ὁ ποιητής φησι τοὺς Ἀλωέως υἱέας, δύο καὶ αὐτοὺς ὄντας, ἔτι παῖδας ἐθελῆσαί ποτε τὴν Ὄσσαν ἐκ βάθρων ἀνασπάσαντας ἐπιθεῖναι τῷ Ὀλύμπῳ, εἶτα τὸ Πήλιον ἐπʼ αὐτῇ, ἱκανὴν ταύτην κλίμακα ἕξειν οἰομένους κα …

All forms of ὄσσα (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.