Κισσός (Kissos)

Κισσός means “Kissos — a mountain of Macedonia, on which were found the lion, ounce, lynx, panther, and bear”.

Ancient Greek word, found 5 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Strabo, Geography 7.fragments.21: … ας ἐστί. τῶν δὲ συνοικισθεισῶν ἦν Ἀπολλωνία καὶ Χαλάστρα καὶ Θέρμα καὶ Γαρησκὸς καὶ Αἴνεια καὶ Κισσός, ὧν τὴν Κισσὸν ὑπονοήσειεν ἄν τις τῷ Κισσῇ προσήκειν, οὗ μέμνηται ὁ ποιητής Κισσῆς τόν γʼ ἔθρεψε, τὸν Ἰφιδάμαντα λέγων.

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.