ῥίζις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥íz.dis/ → /ˈri.zis/ → /ˈri.zis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥íz.dis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈri.zis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.zis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.zis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.zis/

Noun

ῥίζῐς • (rhízĭs) m (genitive ῥίζῐος); third declension

1. Ethiopian animal resembling an elephant

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ῥῐ́ζῐς; τοῦ ῥῐ́ζῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥῐ́ζῐς ho rhĭ́zĭs	τὼ ῥῐ́ζῐε tṑ rhĭ́zĭe	οἱ ῥῐ́ζῐες hoi rhĭ́zĭes
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῐ́ζῐος toû rhĭ́zĭos	τοῖν ῥῐζῐ́οιν toîn rhĭzĭ́oin	τῶν ῥῐζῐ́ων tôn rhĭzĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ῥῐ́ζῑ tôi rhĭ́zī	τοῖν ῥῐζῐ́οιν toîn rhĭzĭ́oin	τοῖς ῥῐ́ζῐσῐ / ῥῐ́ζῐσῐν toîs rhĭ́zĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν ῥῐ́ζῐν tòn rhĭ́zĭn	τὼ ῥῐ́ζῐε tṑ rhĭ́zĭe	τοὺς ῥῐ́ζῑς / ῥῐ́ζῐᾰς toùs rhĭ́zīs / rhĭ́zĭăs
Vocative	ῥῐ́ζῐ rhĭ́zĭ	ῥῐ́ζῐε rhĭ́zĭe	ῥῐ́ζῐες rhĭ́zĭes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ῥίζις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥίζις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette