ῥύπος
See also: ρύπος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
No convincing etymology. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)roupos- and cognate with Proto-Slavic *strupъ (“scab”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ý.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈry.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈry.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈry.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.pos/
Noun
ῥῠ́πος • (rhúpos) m (genitive ῥύπου); second declension
- dirt, filth, uncleanliness
- sordidness, meanness
- sealing wax
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ῥῠ́πος ho rhúpos |
τὼ ῥῠ́πω tṑ rhúpō |
οἱ ῥῠ́ποι hoi rhúpoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥῠ́που toû rhúpou |
τοῖν ῥῠ́ποιν toîn rhúpoin |
τῶν ῥῠ́πων tôn rhúpōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥῠ́πῳ tôi rhúpōi |
τοῖν ῥῠ́ποιν toîn rhúpoin |
τοῖς ῥῠ́ποις toîs rhúpois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ῥῠ́πον tòn rhúpon |
τὼ ῥῠ́πω tṑ rhúpō |
τοὺς ῥῠ́πους toùs rhúpous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥῠ́πε rhúpe |
ῥῠ́πω rhúpō |
ῥῠ́ποι rhúpoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ῥυπαίνω (rhupaínō)
- ῥυπαρός (rhuparós)
- ῥύπασμα (rhúpasma)
- ῥυπάω (rhupáō)
- ῥυπέλαιον (rhupélaion)
- ῥυποέις (rhupoéis)
- ῥυποκέραμος (rhupokéramos)
- ῥυποκόνδυλος (rhupokóndulos)
- ῥυπόω (rhupóō)
- ῥυπώδης (rhupṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: ρύπος (rýpos)
Further reading
- “ῥύπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥύπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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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