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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῥαίνω (rhaínō, “sprinkle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥a.nís/ → /raˈnis/ → /raˈnis/
Noun
ῥᾰνῐ́ς • (rhanís) f (genitive ῥᾰνῐ́δος); third declension
- a drop
- Synonyms: πέμφιξ (pémphix), ῥαθάμιγξ (rhatháminx), σταγών (stagṓn), στράγξ (stránx), ψακάς (psakás), ψιάς (psiás)
- semen
- (figuratively) drop, spot
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ῥανίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥανίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥανίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- drop idem, page 254.
- ooze idem, page 574.