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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wreh₁ǵ-, the same root of ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi, “to break, shatter”) and ῥώξ (rhṓx, “breach”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ɔːkʰ.mós/ → /roxˈmos/ → /roxˈmos/
Noun
ῥωχμός • (rhōkhmós) m (genitive ῥωχμοῦ); second declension
- cleft, fissure, crack
- runnel or gutter scooped out by heavy rains
Inflection
Further reading
- “ῥωχμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥωχμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥωχμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥωχμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ῥωχμός 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