ῥυσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ῥυσσός (rhussós)

Etymology

The word can be compared with λοξός (loxós), κομψός (kompsós) and γαυσός (gausós). Solmsen's comparison with ἐρύω (erúō, “to draw, to pull”) is formally possible, but this doesn't furnish an Indo-European etymology. The similarity with Latin rūga (“wrinkle”) and Lithuanian raūkas (“wrinkle”) is accidental.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥yː.sós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ryˈsos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ryˈsos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ryˈsos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈsos/

Adjective

ῥῡσός • (rhūsós) m (feminine ῥῡσή, neuter ῥῡσόν); first/second declension

shrivelled, wrinkled
Synonym: ἰσχνός (iskhnós)

Inflection

First and second declension of ῥῡσός; ῥῡσή; ῥῡσόν (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ῥῡσός rhūsós	ῥῡσή rhūsḗ	ῥῡσόν rhūsón	ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ	ῥῡσᾱ́ rhūsā́	ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ	ῥῡσοί rhūsoí	ῥῡσαί rhūsaí	ῥῡσᾰ́ rhūsá
Genitive	ῥῡσοῦ rhūsoû	ῥῡσῆς rhūsês	ῥῡσοῦ rhūsoû	ῥῡσοῖν rhūsoîn	ῥῡσαῖν rhūsaîn	ῥῡσοῖν rhūsoîn	ῥῡσῶν rhūsôn	ῥῡσῶν rhūsôn	ῥῡσῶν rhūsôn
Dative	ῥῡσῷ rhūsôi	ῥῡσῇ rhūsêi	ῥῡσῷ rhūsôi	ῥῡσοῖν rhūsoîn	ῥῡσαῖν rhūsaîn	ῥῡσοῖν rhūsoîn	ῥῡσοῖς rhūsoîs	ῥῡσαῖς rhūsaîs	ῥῡσοῖς rhūsoîs
Accusative	ῥῡσόν rhūsón	ῥῡσήν rhūsḗn	ῥῡσόν rhūsón	ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ	ῥῡσᾱ́ rhūsā́	ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ	ῥῡσούς rhūsoús	ῥῡσᾱ́ς rhūsā́s	ῥῡσᾰ́ rhūsá
Vocative	ῥῡσέ rhūsé	ῥῡσή rhūsḗ	ῥῡσόν rhūsón	ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ	ῥῡσᾱ́ rhūsā́	ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ	ῥῡσοί rhūsoí	ῥῡσαί rhūsaí	ῥῡσᾰ́ rhūsá
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ῥῡσῶς rhūsôs			ῥῡσότερος rhūsóteros			ῥῡσότᾰτος rhūsótatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἔνρυσος (énrusos)
ῥυσαίνομαι (rhusaínomai)
ῥυσαλέος (rhusaléos)
ῥυσάω (rhusáō)
ῥυσή (rhusḗ)
ῥύσημα (rhúsēma)
ῥυσόκαρφος (rhusókarphos)
ῥυσότης (rhusótēs)
ῥυσοχίτων (rhusokhítōn)
ῥυσόω (rhusóō)

References

“ῥυσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ῥυσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ῥυσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“ῥυσός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
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

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