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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”). Compare ῥάδιξ (rhádix). Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀹𐀪𐀼 (wi-ri-za), Latin radix (“root”), Latin ramus (“branch”), Old Norse rót (“root”) (English root), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐍃 (waurts), Old English wyrt (“herb, plant”) (English wort), Old Irish fren (“root”), and possibly Tocharian B witsako (“root”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥íz.da/ → /ˈri.za/ → /ˈri.za/
Noun
ῥῐ́ζᾰ • (rhíza) f (genitive ῥῐ́ζης); first declension
- root (of a plant)
- source
- base, foundation
- stock, family, race
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “ῥίζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥίζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥίζα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥίζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ῥίζα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ῥίζα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4491 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- base idem, page 64.
- cause idem, page 118.
- element idem, page 265.
- family idem, page 305.
- foot idem, page 333.
- foundation idem, page 341.
- line idem, page 492.
- origin idem, page 579.
- race idem, page 667.
- root idem, page 721.
- seed idem, page 749.
- source idem, page 797.
- spring idem, page 805.
- starting point idem, page 812.
- stem idem, page 815.
- stock idem, page 818.
- “ῥίζα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011