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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῥῖγος (rhîgos) + -ίων (-íōn, comparative suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ǐː.ɡi.on/ → /ˈri.ʝi.on/ → /ˈri.ʝi.on/
Adjective
ῥῑ́γῐον • (rhī́gion) n; third declension (Epic)
- frostier, colder
- more horrible
Declension
Attested only in the neuter.
Further reading
- “ῥίγιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥίγιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ῥίγιον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ῥίγιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press