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Ancient Greek
Etymology
This etymon has no convincing etymology. A derivation from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”) makes little sense. In view of the variation attested in ῥάθαγος (rháthagos, “rushing noise”) and ῥαθαπῡγίζω (rhathapūgízō, “to slap on the buttocks”), it must be assumed that this word is Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ó.tʰos/ → /ˈro.θos/ → /ˈro.θos/
Noun
ῥόθος • (rhóthos) m (genitive ῥόθου); second declension
- rushing noise, roar of waves, dash of oars
- any confused, inarticulated sound
- any rushing motion
- (in Boeotia) mountain path
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Further reading
- “ῥόθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥόθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥόθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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