ῥητινίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥητίνη (rhētínē, “pine resin”) +‎ -ίτης (-ítēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɛː.tiː.nǐː.tɛːs/ → /ri.tiˈni.tis/ → /ri.tiˈni.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɛː.tiː.nǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /re̝.tiˈni.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ri.tiˈni.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ri.tiˈni.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ri.tiˈni.tis/

Noun

ῥητῑνῑ́της • (rhētīnī́tēs) m (genitive ῥητῑνῑ́του); first declension

1. having the taste of resin

   ῥητινίτης οἶνος ― rhētinítēs oînos ― resinated wine, retsina

   • c. 70 CE, Pedanius Dioscorides, “Book V”, in De materia medica, section 43:

     Ὁ δὲ ῥητινίτης οἶνος καὶ κατὰ τὰ ἔθνη σκευάζεται

     Ho dè rhētinítēs oînos kaì katà tà éthnē skeuázetai

     this resinated wine is produced by many nations

Declension

First declension of ὁ ῥητῑνῑ́της; τοῦ ῥητῑνῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥητῑνῑ́της ho rhētīnī́tēs	τὼ ῥητῑνῑ́τᾱ tṑ rhētīnī́tā	οἱ ῥητῑνῖται hoi rhētīnîtai
Genitive	τοῦ ῥητῑνῑ́του toû rhētīnī́tou	τοῖν ῥητῑνῑ́ταιν toîn rhētīnī́tain	τῶν ῥητῑνῑτῶν tôn rhētīnītôn
Dative	τῷ ῥητῑνῑ́τῃ tôi rhētīnī́tēi	τοῖν ῥητῑνῑ́ταιν toîn rhētīnī́tain	τοῖς ῥητῑνῑ́ταις toîs rhētīnī́tais
Accusative	τὸν ῥητῑνῑ́την tòn rhētīnī́tēn	τὼ ῥητῑνῑ́τᾱ tṑ rhētīnī́tā	τοὺς ῥητῑνῑ́τᾱς toùs rhētīnī́tās
Vocative	ῥητῑνῖτᾰ rhētīnîta	ῥητῑνῑ́τᾱ rhētīnī́tā	ῥητῑνῖται rhētīnîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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