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a⋅byss

  [uh-bis]
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–noun
1. a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
2. anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite: the abyss of time.
3. (in ancient cosmogony)
a. the primal chaos before Creation.
b. the infernal regions; hell.
c. a subterranean ocean.
Origin:
1350–1400; earlier abisse, ME abissus < LL abyssus < Gk ábyssos bottomless, equiv. to a- a- 6 + byssós bottom of the sea
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Abyss.

 
1. Abyssinia.
2. Abyssinian.
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a·byss   (ə-bĭs')   
n.  

  1. An immeasurably deep chasm, depth, or void: "lost in the vast abysses of space and time" (Loren Eiseley).

    1. The primeval chaos out of which it was believed that the earth and sky were formed.

    2. The abode of evil spirits; hell.


[Middle English abissus, from Late Latin abyssus, from Greek abussos, bottomless : a-, without; see a-1 + bussos, bottom.]
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Word Origin & History

abyss 
1398, earlier abime (c.1300), from L.L. abyssus, from Gk. abyssos "bottomless," from a- "without" (see a- (2)) + byssos "bottom," possibly related to bathos "depth." Abyssal is first recorded 1691, used especially of the zone of ocean water below 300 fathoms.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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