Ῥωμαῖος
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See also: Ρωμαίος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Ῥώμη (Rhṓmē, “Rome”) + -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɔː.mâi̯.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /roˈmɛ.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /roˈmɛ.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /roˈme.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /roˈme.os/
Adjective
Ῥωμαῖος • (Rhōmaîos) m (feminine Ῥωμαίᾱ, neuter Ῥωμαῖον); first/second declension
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | Ῥωμαῖος Rhōmaîos |
Ῥωμαίᾱ Rhōmaíā |
Ῥωμαῖον Rhōmaîon |
Ῥωμαίω Rhōmaíō |
Ῥωμαίᾱ Rhōmaíā |
Ῥωμαίω Rhōmaíō |
Ῥωμαῖοι Rhōmaîoi |
Ῥωμαῖαι Rhōmaîai |
Ῥωμαῖᾰ Rhōmaîa | |||||
| Genitive | Ῥωμαίου Rhōmaíou |
Ῥωμαίᾱς Rhōmaíās |
Ῥωμαίου Rhōmaíou |
Ῥωμαίοιν Rhōmaíoin |
Ῥωμαίαιν Rhōmaíain |
Ῥωμαίοιν Rhōmaíoin |
Ῥωμαίων Rhōmaíōn |
Ῥωμαίων Rhōmaíōn |
Ῥωμαίων Rhōmaíōn | |||||
| Dative | Ῥωμαίῳ Rhōmaíōi |
Ῥωμαίᾳ Rhōmaíāi |
Ῥωμαίῳ Rhōmaíōi |
Ῥωμαίοιν Rhōmaíoin |
Ῥωμαίαιν Rhōmaíain |
Ῥωμαίοιν Rhōmaíoin |
Ῥωμαίοις Rhōmaíois |
Ῥωμαίαις Rhōmaíais |
Ῥωμαίοις Rhōmaíois | |||||
| Accusative | Ῥωμαῖον Rhōmaîon |
Ῥωμαίᾱν Rhōmaíān |
Ῥωμαῖον Rhōmaîon |
Ῥωμαίω Rhōmaíō |
Ῥωμαίᾱ Rhōmaíā |
Ῥωμαίω Rhōmaíō |
Ῥωμαίους Rhōmaíous |
Ῥωμαίᾱς Rhōmaíās |
Ῥωμαῖᾰ Rhōmaîa | |||||
| Vocative | Ῥωμαῖε Rhōmaîe |
Ῥωμαίᾱ Rhōmaíā |
Ῥωμαῖον Rhōmaîon |
Ῥωμαίω Rhōmaíō |
Ῥωμαίᾱ Rhōmaíā |
Ῥωμαίω Rhōmaíō |
Ῥωμαῖοι Rhōmaîoi |
Ῥωμαῖαι Rhōmaîai |
Ῥωμαῖᾰ Rhōmaîa | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| Ῥωμαίως Rhōmaíōs |
Ῥωμαιότερος Rhōmaióteros |
Ῥωμαιότᾰτος Rhōmaiótatos | ||||||||||||
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Noun
Ῥωμαῖος • (Rhōmaîos) m (genitive Ῥωμαίου); second declension
- a Roman
- an inhabitant of Rome
- a citizen of the Roman Republic or the Roman Empire
- (in the Byzantine Empire) a citizen of the Byzantine Empire
- a Roman Christian
- (in the Byzantine Empire, after the Great Schism) an Eastern Orthodox Christian
- (in Greek Christendom) a Greek
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Ῥωμαῖος ho Rhōmaîos |
τὼ Ῥωμαίω tṑ Rhōmaíō |
οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι hoi Rhōmaîoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ῥωμαίου toû Rhōmaíou |
τοῖν Ῥωμαίοιν toîn Rhōmaíoin |
τῶν Ῥωμαίων tôn Rhōmaíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ῥωμαίῳ tôi Rhōmaíōi |
τοῖν Ῥωμαίοιν toîn Rhōmaíoin |
τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις toîs Rhōmaíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ῥωμαῖον tòn Rhōmaîon |
τὼ Ῥωμαίω tṑ Rhōmaíō |
τοὺς Ῥωμαίους toùs Rhōmaíous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Ῥωμαῖε Rhōmaîe |
Ῥωμαίω Rhōmaíō |
Ῥωμαῖοι Rhōmaîoi | ||||||||||
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Related terms
Descendants
- Greek: Ρωμιός (Romiós, “(Byzantine) Greek”), Ρωμιοί pl (Romioí); Ρωμαίος (Romaíos, “Roman”), Ρωμαίοι pl (Romaíoi)
- Mariupol Greek: руме́юс (rumjéjus)
- → Arabic: رُوم (rūm)
- → Coptic: ⲣⲱⲙⲉⲟⲥ (rōmeos)
- → English: Rhomaian
- → Late Latin: Rōmaeus, Rōmaei pl
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- → Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬𐭠𐭣𐭩𐭪 (Hrōmāy-īg)
- → Old Armenian: հռովմայ-ական (hṙovmay-akan), հռովմայ-եցի (hṙovmay-ecʻi)
- → Sogdian: 𐫂𐫡𐫀𐫇𐫖𐫀𐫏𐫀𐫗 (βrʾwmʾyʾn /frōmāyān/, “Roman, Byzantine”)
References
- “Ῥωμαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ῥωμαῖος 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
- G4514 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- rome idem, page 721.