ῥίς
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See also: ρις
Ancient Greek
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Alternative forms
- ῥῑ́ν (rhī́n) — Later poetic
Etymology
Probably a Pre-Greek borrowing.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ǐːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ris/
Noun
ῥῑ́ς • (rhī́s) f (genitive ῥῑνός); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ ῥῑ́ς hē rhī́s |
τὼ ῥῖνε tṑ rhîne |
αἱ ῥῖνες hai rhînes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ῥῑνός tês rhīnós |
τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν toîn rhīnoîn |
τῶν ῥῑνῶν tôn rhīnôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ῥῑνῐ́ têi rhīní |
τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν toîn rhīnoîn |
ταῖς ῥῑσῐ́ / ῥῑσῐ́ν taîs rhīsí(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ῥῖνᾰ tḕn rhîna |
τὼ ῥῖνε tṑ rhîne |
τᾱ̀ς ῥῖνᾰς tā̀s rhînas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥῑ́ς rhī́s |
ῥῖνε rhîne |
ῥῖνες rhînes | ||||||||||
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Related terms
Not to be confused with similar words meaning skin, leather; hide, shield from ἡ ῥῑνός (rhīnós)
or similar words meaning file, rasp from ἡ ῥίνη (rhínē)
Related terms
- ᾰ̓νᾰ́ρρῑνον n (anárrhīnon, “plant nose-smart, watercress, κάρδαμον; sternutative”)
- ἀντῐ́ρρῑνον n (antírrhīnon, “palnt calf's snout, plant Antirrhinum Orontium”)
- ἄρρῑνον n (árrhīnon)
- ἐπίρρινος (epírrhinos, “with a long nose”)
- ἔρρινον (érrhinon, “sternutatory medicine causing sneezing”)
- εὐθύρινος (euthúrinos, “straight-nosed”)
- εὐθύρρῑν (euthúrrhīn, “straight-nosed”)
- εὔθυρρις (eúthurrhis, “straight-nosed”)
- εὔρῑνος (eúrīnos, “with a good nose”)
- εὔρῑς m or f (eúrīs, “with a good nose”)
- κολοβόρινος (kolobórinos, “with broken nose”)
- μεγαλόρινος (megalórinos, “with large nose”)
- ῥῑναυλέω (rhīnauléō, “snort, blow from nouse from anger”)
- ῥινάω (rhináō, “lead by the nose; file”)
- ῥῑνεγκᾰτᾰπηξῐγένειος (rhīnenkatapēxigéneios, “with a nose near the chin”)
- ῥῑνεγχυσία f (rhīnenkhusía, “injection at the nose”)
- ῥῑνεγχῠτέω (rhīnenkhutéō, “inject at the nose”)
- ῥῑνόω (rhīnóō, “inject at the nose”)
- ῥῑνεγχῠ́της m (rhīnenkhútēs, “instrument for passing such iniections”)
- ῥῑνέγχῠτον n (rhīnénkhuton, “injection for the nose”)
- ῥῑνέγχῠτος (rhīnénkhutos, “injected at the nose”)
- ῥῑνηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ f (rhīnēlasíā, “tracking by the nose”)
- ῥῑνηλᾰτέω (rhīnēlatéō, “track by scent”)
- ῥῑνηλᾰ́της m (rhīnēlátēs, “who tracks by scent”)
- ῥῑνήλᾰτος (rhīnḗlatos, “tracked by the scent”)
- ῥῑνίον n (rhīníon, “diminutive of file (ῥίνη), or nose (ῥίς)”)
- ῥινοβόλος (rhinobólos, “striking the nose, emitted through the nose”)
- ῥινόκερως m (rhinókerōs, “rhinoceros”)
- ῥινοκολοῦρος (rhinokoloûros, “with mutilated nose”)
- ῥινοκολούστης m (rhinokoloústēs, “nose-clipper, of Heracles”)
- ῥινοκοπέω (rhinokopéō, “cut off the nose”)
- ῥινολαβίς (rhinolabís, “tongs to hold the nose”)
- ῥινόσιμος (rhinósimos, “snub-nosed”)
- ῥῑνοσπᾰ́θιον n (rhīnospáthion, “a surgical instrument”)
- ῥῑνοτορίνιον n (rhīnotorínion, “a surgical instrument”)
- ῥῑνουλκέω (rhīnoulkéō, “inhale”)
- τανύρρινος (tanúrrhinos, “long-nosed”)
- τετράρρῑνος (tetrárrhīnos, “with four nozzles”)
- ὑπόρρῑνος (hupórrhīnos, “under the nose”)
- ὑπόρρινα n pl (hupórrhina, “moustaches”) (or perhaps of ὑπόρρις m (hupórrhis))
Descendants
- Greek: ρίνα (rína)
- → English: rhino- (learned)
- → French: rhino- (learned)
- → German: rhino- (learned)
- → Greek: ρινο- (rino-) (learned)
- → Italian: rino- (learned)
- → Spanish: rino- (learned)
See also
- ῥῑνη f (rhīnē, “rasp”) or ῥίν (rhín, “sense: rasp”)
- ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, “hide; shield”) το ῥῑνόν, του ῥῑνοῦ
- ῥῑνός f (rhīnós, “skin of a man; hide of a beast”) ἡ ῥῑνός, τῆς ῥῑνοῦ (occasionally masculine)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥίς, ῥῑνός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1288
Further reading
- “ῥίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ῥίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.