ῥύπος

See also: ρύπος

Ancient Greek

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)rowpos (“accumulated filth”) and cognate with Proto-Slavic *strupъ (“scab”).^[1]

ῥῠ́πος • (rhŭ́pos) m (genitive ῥῠ́που); second declension

Second declension of ὁ ῥῠ́πος; τοῦ ῥῠ́που (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥῠ́πος ho rhŭ́pos	τὼ ῥῠ́πω tṑ rhŭ́pō	οἱ ῥῠ́ποι hoi rhŭ́poi
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῠ́που toû rhŭ́pou	τοῖν ῥῠ́ποιν toîn rhŭ́poin	τῶν ῥῠ́πων tôn rhŭ́pōn
Dative	τῷ ῥῠ́πῳ tōî rhŭ́pōi	τοῖν ῥῠ́ποιν toîn rhŭ́poin	τοῖς ῥῠ́ποις toîs rhŭ́pois
Accusative	τὸν ῥῠ́πον tòn rhŭ́pon	τὼ ῥῠ́πω tṑ rhŭ́pō	τοὺς ῥῠ́πους toùs rhŭ́pous
Vocative	ῥῠ́πε rhŭ́pe	ῥῠ́πω rhŭ́pō	ῥῠ́ποι rhŭ́poi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ῥύπος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1294