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 • (rhanís) 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 rhanís	τὼ ῥᾰνῐ́δε tṑ rhaníde	αἱ ῥᾰνῐ́δες hai rhanídes
Genitive	τῆς ῥᾰνῐ́δος tês rhanídos	τοῖν ῥᾰνῐ́δοιν toîn rhanídoin	τῶν ῥᾰνῐ́δων tôn rhanídōn
Dative	τῇ ῥᾰνῐ́δῐ têi rhanídi	τοῖν ῥᾰνῐ́δοιν toîn rhanídoin	ταῖς ῥᾰνῐ́σῐ / ῥᾰνῐ́σῐν taîs rhanísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥᾰνῐ́δᾰ tḕn rhanída	τὼ ῥᾰνῐ́δε tṑ rhaníde	τᾱ̀ς ῥᾰνῐ́δᾰς tā̀s rhanídas
Vocative	ῥᾰνῐ́ς rhanís	ῥᾰνῐ́δε rhaníde	ῥᾰνῐ́δες rhanídes
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.