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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *srútis, from *srew- (“to flow, stream”) + *-tis, equivalent to ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, stream, gush”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Cognate with Sanskrit स्रुति (srúti-, “stream, (out)flow, discharge; course, path; drain”) and Lithuanian srū́ti (“to flow, run (of water); to cover oneself with water”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ý.sis/ → /ˈry.sis/ → /ˈri.sis/
Noun
ῥῠ́σῐς • (rhúsis) f (genitive ῥῠ́σεως); third declension
- flow
- the course of a river or stream
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*sreu̯-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 630–634
Further reading
- “ῥύσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥύσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥύσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4511 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible