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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to draw”) and related to ἐρύω (erúō, “to draw, tear”), ῥύμη (rhúmē, “force, pressure”) and ῥυτά (rhutá, “reins”). A possible cognate outside Greek is Latin rūdens (“rope, line, halyard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥yː.mós/ → /ryˈmos/ → /riˈmos/
Noun
ῥῡμός • (rhūmós) m (genitive ῥῡμοῦ); second declension
- pole of a chariot or car
- log or block of wood for fuel
- (astronomy) trail of a shooting star
Inflection
References
- “ῥυμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥυμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥυμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥυμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ῥυμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN