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Ancient Greek
Etymology
“Ruler.” Satem sound-change from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.sos/ → /ˈri.sos/ → /ˈri.sos/
Proper noun
Ῥῆσος • (Rhêsos) m (genitive Ῥήσου); second declension
- Rhesus of Thrace (a king who fought on the side of Trojans in the Iliad)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “Ῥῆσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Ῥῆσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
- Rhesus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia