ῥαδινός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βραδινός (bradinós) — Aeolic

Etymology

The formation is like in πυκινός (pukinós) but the basis is unknown. Some connect this word with ῥάδαμνος (rhádamnos, “branch, twig”), while Lobeck also connects ῥαδές (rhadés, “bent to both sides”). Beekes confront the adjective with ῥοδανός (rhodanós, “wavering, flickering”) and concludes that both words are from Pre-Greek, in view of the variation ῥαδ-/ῥοδ- (rhad-/rhod-).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥a.di.nós/ → /ra.ðiˈnos/ → /ra.ðiˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥a.di.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ra.diˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ra.ðiˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ra.ðiˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ra.ðiˈnos/

Adjective

ῥᾰδῐνός • (rhădĭnós) m (feminine ῥᾰδῐνή, neuter ῥᾰδῐνόν); first/second declension

1. slender, taper, thin
2. soft, tender, mobile

Inflection

First and second declension of ῥᾰδῐνός; ῥᾰδῐνή; ῥᾰδῐνόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ῥᾰδῐνός rhădĭnós	ῥᾰδῐνή rhădĭnḗ	ῥᾰδῐνόν rhădĭnón		ῥᾰδῐνώ rhădĭnṓ	ῥᾰδῐνᾱ́ rhădĭnā́	ῥᾰδῐνώ rhădĭnṓ		ῥᾰδῐνοί rhădĭnoí	ῥᾰδῐναί rhădĭnaí	ῥᾰδῐνᾰ́ rhădĭnắ
Genitive		ῥᾰδῐνοῦ rhădĭnoû	ῥᾰδῐνῆς rhădĭnês	ῥᾰδῐνοῦ rhădĭnoû		ῥᾰδῐνοῖν rhădĭnoîn	ῥᾰδῐναῖν rhădĭnaîn	ῥᾰδῐνοῖν rhădĭnoîn		ῥᾰδῐνῶν rhădĭnôn	ῥᾰδῐνῶν rhădĭnôn	ῥᾰδῐνῶν rhădĭnôn
Dative		ῥᾰδῐνῷ rhădĭnôi	ῥᾰδῐνῇ rhădĭnêi	ῥᾰδῐνῷ rhădĭnôi		ῥᾰδῐνοῖν rhădĭnoîn	ῥᾰδῐναῖν rhădĭnaîn	ῥᾰδῐνοῖν rhădĭnoîn		ῥᾰδῐνοῖς rhădĭnoîs	ῥᾰδῐναῖς rhădĭnaîs	ῥᾰδῐνοῖς rhădĭnoîs
Accusative		ῥᾰδῐνόν rhădĭnón	ῥᾰδῐνήν rhădĭnḗn	ῥᾰδῐνόν rhădĭnón		ῥᾰδῐνώ rhădĭnṓ	ῥᾰδῐνᾱ́ rhădĭnā́	ῥᾰδῐνώ rhădĭnṓ		ῥᾰδῐνούς rhădĭnoús	ῥᾰδῐνᾱ́ς rhădĭnā́s	ῥᾰδῐνᾰ́ rhădĭnắ
Vocative		ῥᾰδῐνέ rhădĭné	ῥᾰδῐνή rhădĭnḗ	ῥᾰδῐνόν rhădĭnón		ῥᾰδῐνώ rhădĭnṓ	ῥᾰδῐνᾱ́ rhădĭnā́	ῥᾰδῐνώ rhădĭnṓ		ῥᾰδῐνοί rhădĭnoí	ῥᾰδῐναί rhădĭnaí	ῥᾰδῐνᾰ́ rhădĭnắ
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ῥᾰδῐνῶς rhădĭnôs				ῥᾰδῐνώτερος rhădĭnṓteros				ῥᾰδῐνώτᾰτος rhădĭnṓtătos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ραδινός (radinós)

Further reading

• “ῥαδινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥαδινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥαδινός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥαδινός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥαδινός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN