Abyss (religion)

This article refers to the religious setting. For other uses, see Abyss. An abyss (Greek αβυσσος = "having no bottom", "bottomless") is a bottomless depth; hence any deep place. The word is usually used to refer to a pit; to the deepest ocean floor; or to hell.From the late popular Latin abyssimus (superlative of abyssus), through French abisme (nowadays abîme) came the poetic form "abysm", used in 1616 and earlier to rhyme with "time". Greek αβυσσος and its meaning may have arisen as a Greekized form of Sumerian Abzu (Akkadian = Apsu), meaning "deep waters" (Sumerian ab = "water", zu = "far").
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