ῥῆον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ῥᾶ (rhâ)
Etymology
From Middle Persian or a closely related language, from Proto-Iranian *(h)rabā́š (“rhubarb, fennel”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈre̝.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.on/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ῥῆον tò rhêon |
τὼ ῥήω tṑ rhḗō |
τᾰ̀ ῥῆᾰ tà rhêa | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥήου toû rhḗou |
τοῖν ῥήοιν toîn rhḗoin |
τῶν ῥήων tôn rhḗōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥήῳ tôi rhḗōi |
τοῖν ῥήοιν toîn rhḗoin |
τοῖς ῥήοις toîs rhḗois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ῥῆον tò rhêon |
τὼ ῥήω tṑ rhḗō |
τᾰ̀ ῥῆᾰ tà rhêa | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥῆον rhêon |
ῥήω rhḗō |
ῥῆᾰ rhêa | ||||||||||
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References
- J.P. Mallory & D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "dew" (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), 158-9.
- Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italian Languages, s.v. "rōs, rōris" (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 526-7.
- Nourai, Ali. 2013. An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and Other Indo-European Languages. Index of Words in Different Languages Vol. 1 Vol. 1. p.130.
- Lebedynsky, Iaroslav. Les Sarmates : Amazones et lanciers cuirassés entre Oural et Danube. Paris: Editions Errance, 2002.
Further reading
- “ῥῆον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥῆον 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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