ῥεῦμα

From Proto-Hellenic *hréumə, likely inherited from Proto-Indo-European *sréwmn̥, from *srew- (“to flow”) +‎ *-mn̥; equivalent to ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”) +‎ -μα (-ma). Compare the related Proto-Indo-European *srówmos, whence also Old English stream. See also ῥυθμός (rhuthmós).

ῥεῦμᾰ • (rheûma) n (genitive ῥεύμᾰτος); third declension

1. stream, flow, current

• ῥευμᾰτῐκός (rheumatikós)
• ῥευμᾰτῐσμός (rheumatismós)

• Greek: ρέμα (réma) , ρεύμα (révma)
• → Latin: rheuma (see there for further descendants)

• “ῥεῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥεῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥεῦμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beck idem, page 68.
  • brook idem, page 101.
  • channel idem, page 124.
  • current idem, page 190.
  • flood idem, page 329.
  • flow idem, page 329.
  • jet idem, page 463.
  • rill idem, page 715.
  • river idem, page 718.
  • stream idem, page 824.
  • tide idem, page 873.