ῥώξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ῥώξ • (rhṓx) f (genitive ῥωγός); third declension

  1. breach, narrow passage
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῥώξ; τῆς ῥωγός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ῥώξ
hē rhṓx		 τὼ ῥῶγε
tṑ rhôge		 αἱ ῥῶγες
hai rhôges
Genitive τῆς ῥωγός
tês rhōgós		 τοῖν ῥωγοῖν
toîn rhōgoîn		 τῶν ῥωγῶν
tôn rhōgôn
Dative τῇ ῥωγῐ́
têi rhōgí		 τοῖν ῥωγοῖν
toîn rhōgoîn		 ταῖς ῥωξῐ́ / ῥωξῐ́ν
taîs rhōxí(n)
Accusative τὴν ῥῶγᾰ
tḕn rhôga		 τὼ ῥῶγε
tṑ rhôge		 τᾱ̀ς ῥῶγᾰς
tā̀s rhôgas
Vocative ῥώξ
rhṓx		 ῥῶγε
rhôge		 ῥῶγες
rhôges
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Derived terms
  • ῥωγαλέος (rhōgaléos)
  • ῥωγάς (rhōgás)
  • ῥωγή (rhōgḗ)
  • ῥωγμή (rhōgmḗ)
  • ῥωγμοειδής (rhōgmoeidḗs)
  • ῥωγμός (rhōgmós)

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ῥώξ • (rhṓx) f (genitive ῥωγός); third declension

  1. Alternative form of ῥάξ (rháx)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῥώξ; τῆς ῥωγός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ῥώξ
hē rhṓx		 τὼ ῥῶγε
tṑ rhôge		 αἱ ῥῶγες
hai rhôges
Genitive τῆς ῥωγός
tês rhōgós		 τοῖν ῥωγοῖν
toîn rhōgoîn		 τῶν ῥωγῶν
tôn rhōgôn
Dative τῇ ῥωγῐ́
têi rhōgí		 τοῖν ῥωγοῖν
toîn rhōgoîn		 ταῖς ῥωξῐ́ / ῥωξῐ́ν
taîs rhōxí(n)
Accusative τὴν ῥῶγᾰ
tḕn rhôga		 τὼ ῥῶγε
tṑ rhôge		 τᾱ̀ς ῥῶγᾰς
tā̀s rhôgas
Vocative ῥώξ
rhṓx		 ῥῶγε
rhôge		 ῥῶγες
rhôges
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Descendants
  • Greek: ρώγα (róga)
  • >? Proto-Albanian: *ruśśa-[1]

Further reading
  • “ῥώξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ῥώξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ῥώξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ῥώξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ῥώξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ῥώξ 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

References
  1. Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 213
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