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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to tear, dig, burrow, gather”), the same root of ἐρύω (erúō, “to draw, drag, pull”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥y̌ː.si.on/ → /ˈry.si.on/ → /ˈri.si.on/
Noun
ῥῡ́σῐον • (rhū́sion) n (genitive ῥῡσῐ́ου); second declension
- surety, pledge
- Synonyms: ἐγγῠ́η (engúē), ἐνέχῠρον (enékhuron), ὑποθήκη (hupothḗkē)
- property held as a compensation
- booty, prey, that which is dragged away
- reprisal, retaliation
- (in the plural) restitution, deliverance
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ῥύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥύσιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥύσιον 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