ῥανίς

See also: ρανίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥαίνω (rhaínō, “sprinkle”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥a.nís/ → /raˈnis/ → /raˈnis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥a.nís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /raˈnis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /raˈnis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /raˈnis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /raˈnis/

Noun

ῥᾰνῐ́ς • (rhănĭ́s) f (genitive ῥᾰνῐ́δος); third declension

1. a drop

   Synonyms: πέμφιξ (pémphix), ῥαθάμιγξ (rhatháminx), σταγών (stagṓn), στράγξ (stránx), ψακάς (psakás), ψιάς (psiás)

   • Choerilus of Samos 9
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 227
   1. semen
      • Palatine Anthology, 10.45
   2. (figuratively) drop, spot
      • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 17.23

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ῥᾰνῐ́ς; τῆς ῥᾰνῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥᾰνῐ́ς hē rhănĭ́s	τὼ ῥᾰνῐ́δε tṑ rhănĭ́de	αἱ ῥᾰνῐ́δες hai rhănĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ῥᾰνῐ́δος tês rhănĭ́dos	τοῖν ῥᾰνῐ́δοιν toîn rhănĭ́doin	τῶν ῥᾰνῐ́δων tôn rhănĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ῥᾰνῐ́δῐ têi rhănĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ῥᾰνῐ́δοιν toîn rhănĭ́doin	ταῖς ῥᾰνῐ́σῐ / ῥᾰνῐ́σῐν taîs rhănĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥᾰνῐ́δᾰ tḕn rhănĭ́dă	τὼ ῥᾰνῐ́δε tṑ rhănĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ῥᾰνῐ́δᾰς tā̀s rhănĭ́dăs
Vocative	ῥᾰνῐ́ς rhănĭ́s	ῥᾰνῐ́δε rhănĭ́de	ῥᾰνῐ́δες rhănĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Greek: ρανίδα (ranída)

Further reading

• “ῥανίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥανίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥανίς 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • drop idem, page 254.
  • ooze idem, page 574.