ῥεῖθρον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥέεθρον (rhéethron) — Epic

Etymology

Contracted from ῥέεθρον (rhéethron), from *ῥέϝεθρον (*rhéwethron), from the stem of ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥êː.tʰron/ → /ˈri.θron/ → /ˈri.θron/

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

Noun

ῥεῖθρον • (rheîthron) n (genitive ῥείθρου); second declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) a flow, stream

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ῥεῖθρον; τοῦ ῥείθρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥεῖθρον tò rheîthron	τᾰ̀ ῥεῖθρᾰ tà rheîthra
Genitive	τοῦ ῥείθρου toû rheíthrou	τῶν ῥείθρων tôn rheíthrōn
Dative	τῷ ῥείθρῳ tôi rheíthrōi	τοῖς ῥείθροις toîs rheíthrois
Accusative	τὸ ῥεῖθρον tò rheîthron	τᾰ̀ ῥεῖθρᾰ tà rheîthra
Vocative	ῥεῖθρον rheîthron	ῥεῖθρᾰ rheîthra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ῥεῖθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press