ῥοῦς
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ûːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈrus/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈrus/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈrus/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈrus/
Noun
ῥοῦς • (rhoûs) m (genitive ῥοῦ); second declension (Attic)
- contracted form of ῥόος (rhóos)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ῥοῦς ho rhoûs |
τὼ ῥῶ / ῥώ tṑ rhô / rhṓ |
οἱ ῥοῖ hoi rhoî | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥοῦ toû rhoû |
τοῖν ῥοῖν toîn rhoîn |
τῶν ῥῶν tôn rhôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥῷ tōî rhōî |
τοῖν ῥοῖν toîn rhoîn |
τοῖς ῥοῖς toîs rhoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ῥοῦν tòn rhoûn |
τὼ ῥῶ / ῥώ tṑ rhô / rhṓ |
τοὺς ῥοῦς toùs rhoûs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥοῦ rhoû |
ῥῶ / ῥώ rhô / rhṓ |
ῥοῖ rhoî | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Rhus
Further reading
- “ῥοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥοῦς 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