ῥητός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wr̥h₁tós, from *werh₁- (“to speak, say”). Equivalent to εἴρω (eírō, “I say”) +‎ -τός (-tós, verbal adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɛː.tós/ → /riˈtos/ → /riˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɛː.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /re̝ˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /riˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /riˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈtos/

Adjective

ῥητός • (rhētós) m (feminine ῥητή, neuter ῥητόν); first/second declension

1. spoken, stipulated

Declension

First and second declension of ῥητός; ῥητή; ῥητόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ῥητός rhētós	ῥητή rhētḗ	ῥητόν rhētón		ῥητώ rhētṓ	ῥητᾱ́ rhētā́	ῥητώ rhētṓ		ῥητοί rhētoí	ῥηταί rhētaí	ῥητᾰ́ rhētắ
Genitive		ῥητοῦ rhētoû	ῥητῆς rhētês	ῥητοῦ rhētoû		ῥητοῖν rhētoîn	ῥηταῖν rhētaîn	ῥητοῖν rhētoîn		ῥητῶν rhētôn	ῥητῶν rhētôn	ῥητῶν rhētôn
Dative		ῥητῷ rhētôi	ῥητῇ rhētêi	ῥητῷ rhētôi		ῥητοῖν rhētoîn	ῥηταῖν rhētaîn	ῥητοῖν rhētoîn		ῥητοῖς rhētoîs	ῥηταῖς rhētaîs	ῥητοῖς rhētoîs
Accusative		ῥητόν rhētón	ῥητήν rhētḗn	ῥητόν rhētón		ῥητώ rhētṓ	ῥητᾱ́ rhētā́	ῥητώ rhētṓ		ῥητούς rhētoús	ῥητᾱ́ς rhētā́s	ῥητᾰ́ rhētắ
Vocative		ῥητέ rhēté	ῥητή rhētḗ	ῥητόν rhētón		ῥητώ rhētṓ	ῥητᾱ́ rhētā́	ῥητώ rhētṓ		ῥητοί rhētoí	ῥηταί rhētaí	ῥητᾰ́ rhētắ
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ῥητῶς rhētôs				ῥητότερος rhētóteros				ῥητότᾰτος rhētótătos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀναντίρρητος (anantírrhētos, “unopposed”)
• ἀπρόρρητος (aprórrhētos, “not foretold”)
• ἄρρητος (árrhētos, “unspoken”)
• ἀπρόσρητος (aprósrētos, “unaddressed”)
• δύσρητος (dúsrētos, “that should not be spoken”)
• ἐπίρρητος (epírrhētos, “infamous”)
• εὔρητος (eúrētos, “easy to tell”)
• παραρρητός (pararrhētós, “that can be moved by words”)
• πρόρρητος (prórrhētos, “proclaimed”)

Further reading

• “ῥητός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥητός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥητός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ῥητός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥητός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • agreed upon idem, page 20.
  • appoint idem, page 36.
  • arrange idem, page 41.
  • certain idem, page 122.
  • communicable idem, page 149.
  • divulge idem, page 244.
  • expressible idem, page 296.
  • mentionable idem, page 525.
  • speakable idem, page 798.
  • spoken idem, page 804.