ῥωχμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wreh₁ǵ-, the same root of ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi, “to break, shatter”) and ῥώξ (rhṓx, “breach”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ῥωχμός • (rhōkhmós) m (genitive ῥωχμοῦ); second declension

  1. cleft, fissure, crack
  2. runnel or gutter scooped out by heavy rains

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ῥωχμός; τοῦ ῥωχμοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ῥωχμός
ho rhōkhmós		 τὼ ῥωχμώ
tṑ rhōkhmṓ		 οἱ ῥωχμοί
hoi rhōkhmoí
Genitive τοῦ ῥωχμοῦ
toû rhōkhmoû		 τοῖν ῥωχμοῖν
toîn rhōkhmoîn		 τῶν ῥωχμῶν
tôn rhōkhmôn
Dative τῷ ῥωχμῷ
tôi rhōkhmôi		 τοῖν ῥωχμοῖν
toîn rhōkhmoîn		 τοῖς ῥωχμοῖς
toîs rhōkhmoîs
Accusative τὸν ῥωχμόν
tòn rhōkhmón		 τὼ ῥωχμώ
tṑ rhōkhmṓ		 τοὺς ῥωχμούς
toùs rhōkhmoús
Vocative ῥωχμέ
rhōkhmé		 ῥωχμώ
rhōkhmṓ		 ῥωχμοί
rhōkhmoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading
  • “ῥωχμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ῥωχμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ῥωχμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ῥωχμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ῥωχμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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