Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryHell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. · A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space. · Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound. · Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
From Middle English abissus, from Late Latin abyssus (“a bottomless gulf”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βυσσός (bussós, “deep place”)), from βυθός (buthós, “deep place”). Displaced native Old English neowolnes.
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