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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós, corresponding to Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰmos, ultimately from *srew- (“to flow”). Related to ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ytʰ.mós/ → /ryθˈmos/ → /riθˈmos/
Noun
ῥῠθμός • (rhuthmós) m (genitive ῥῠθμοῦ); second declension
- a repeating, regular motion, vibration
- measured motion, rhythm
- measure, proportion, symmetry
- proportion, arrangement, order
- state, condition
- form, shape
- manner, fashion
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Further reading
- “ῥυθμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥυθμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥυθμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ῥυθμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cadence idem, page 108.
- fashion idem, page 308.
- kind idem, page 469.
- manner idem, page 512.
- measure idem, page 520.
- regularity idem, page 687.
- rhythm idem, page 712.
- sort idem, page 795.
- symmetry idem, page 850.
- time idem, page 875.
- uniformity idem, page 921.