ῥώψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

The word may be related to ῥαπίζω (rhapízō, “to cudgel, thrash”) and also to ῥέπω (rhépō, “to incline”) and ῥέμβω (rhémbō, “to turn in circles”), but connections outside Greek are not found. The word may be of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ῥώψ • (rhṓps) f (genitive ῥωπός); third declension

  1. (in the plural) brushwood, underwood
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῥώψ; τῆς ῥωπός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ῥώψ
hē rhṓps		 τὼ ῥῶπε
tṑ rhôpe		 αἱ ῥῶπες
hai rhôpes
Genitive τῆς ῥωπός
tês rhōpós		 τοῖν ῥωποῖν
toîn rhōpoîn		 τῶν ῥωπῶν
tôn rhōpôn
Dative τῇ ῥωπῐ́
têi rhōpí		 τοῖν ῥωποῖν
toîn rhōpoîn		 ταῖς ῥωψῐ́ / ῥωψῐ́ν
taîs rhōpsí(n)
Accusative τὴν ῥῶπᾰ
tḕn rhôpa		 τὼ ῥῶπε
tṑ rhôpe		 τᾱ̀ς ῥῶπᾰς
tā̀s rhôpas
Vocative ῥώψ
rhṓps		 ῥῶπε
rhôpe		 ῥῶπες
rhôpes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Derived terms
  • ῥωπάκιον (rhōpákion)
  • ῥῶπαξ (rhôpax)
  • ῥωπάς (rhōpás)
  • ῥωπεύω (rhōpeúō)
  • ῥωπήεις (rhōpḗeis)
  • ῥωπήϊον (rhōpḗïon)
  • ῥωπίον (rhōpíon)
  • χαμαίρωψ (khamaírōps)

Etymology 2

From Egyptian rms (“ship”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ῥώψ • (rhṓps) ? (indeclinable)

  1. kind of Egyptian ship made of papyrus

Further reading
  • “ῥώψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ῥώψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ῥώψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ῥώψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ῥώψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • (no entry for the specified headword) 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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