Ῥῆσος

See also: Ρήσος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

“Ruler.” Satem sound-change from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ῥῆσος • (Rhêsos) m (genitive Ῥήσου); second declension

  1. Rhesus of Thrace (a king who fought on the side of Trojans in the Iliad)

Declension
Second declension of ὁ Ῥῆσος; τοῦ Ῥήσου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Ῥῆσος
ho Rhêsos
Genitive τοῦ Ῥήσου
toû Rhḗsou
Dative τῷ Ῥήσῳ
tôi Rhḗsōi
Accusative τὸν Ῥῆσον
tòn Rhêson
Vocative Ῥῆσε
Rhêse
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Personal names rarely take the definite article.

Descendants
  • Greek: Ρήσος (Rísos)
  • → Latin: Rhēsus

Further reading
  • “Ῥῆσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • “Ῥῆσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
  • Rhesus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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