ῥώξ

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Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *wreh₁ǵ-, the same root of ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi, “to break”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ῥώξ • (rhṓx) f (genitive ῥωγός); third declension

  1. breach, narrow passage
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῥώξ; τῆς ῥωγός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ῥώξ
hē rhṓx 		τὼ ῥῶγε
tṑ rhôge 		αἱ ῥῶγες
hai rhôges
Genitive τῆς ῥωγός
tês rhōgós 		τοῖν ῥωγοῖν
toîn rhōgoîn 		τῶν ῥωγῶν
tôn rhōgôn
Dative τῇ ῥωγῐ́
têi rhōgí 		τοῖν ῥωγοῖν
toîn rhōgoîn 		ταῖς ῥωξῐ́ / ῥωξῐ́ν
taîs rhōxí(n)
Accusative τὴν ῥῶγᾰ
tḕn rhôga 		τὼ ῥῶγε
tṑ rhôge 		τᾱ̀ς ῥῶγᾰς
tā̀s rhôgas
Vocative ῥώξ
rhṓx 		ῥῶγε
rhôge 		ῥῶγες
rhôges
Notes:
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ῥώξ • (rhṓx) f (genitive ῥωγός); third declension

  1. Alternative form of ῥάξ (rháx)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῥώξ; τῆς ῥωγός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ῥώξ
hē rhṓx 		τὼ ῥῶγε
tṑ rhôge 		αἱ ῥῶγες
hai rhôges
Genitive τῆς ῥωγός
tês rhōgós 		τοῖν ῥωγοῖν
toîn rhōgoîn 		τῶν ῥωγῶν
tôn rhōgôn
Dative τῇ ῥωγῐ́
têi rhōgí 		τοῖν ῥωγοῖν
toîn rhōgoîn 		ταῖς ῥωξῐ́ / ῥωξῐ́ν
taîs rhōxí(n)
Accusative τὴν ῥῶγᾰ
tḕn rhôga 		τὼ ῥῶγε
tṑ rhôge 		τᾱ̀ς ῥῶγᾰς
tā̀s rhôgas
Vocative ῥώξ
rhṓx 		ῥῶγε
rhôge 		ῥῶγες
rhôges
Notes:
Descendants
  • Greek: ρώγα (róga)
  • >? Proto-Albanian: *ruśśa-

Further reading

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

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 213
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