Ῥῆσος

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See also: Ρήσος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

“Ruler.” Satem sound-change from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ῥῆσος (Rhêsosm (genitive Ῥήσου); second declension

  1. Rhesus of Thrace (a king who fought on the side of Trojans in the Iliad)

Declension

Descendants

  • Greek: Ρήσος (Rísos)
  • Latin: Rhēsus

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