ῥοή
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”) + -η (-ē), possibly inherited from Proto-Hellenic *hrowā́, from Proto-Indo-European *srowéh₂, from the root *srew- (“to flow, stream”). Cognate with Lithuanian sravà, Latvian strava, and Sanskrit *स्रवा (*sravā́) in such compounds as गिरिस्रवा (girisravā).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥o.ɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /roˈe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /roˈi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /roˈi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /roˈi/
Noun
[edit]ῥοή • (rhoḗ) f (genitive ἐκροῆς); first declension
- a river, a stream
- Synonym: ποταμός (potamós)
- (philosophy) a flux
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥοή hē rhoḗ |
τὼ ῥοᾱ́ tṑ rhoā́ |
αἱ ῥοαί hai rhoaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥοῆς tês rhoês |
τοῖν ῥοαῖν toîn rhoaîn |
τῶν ῥοῶν tôn rhoôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥοῇ têi rhoêi |
τοῖν ῥοαῖν toîn rhoaîn |
ταῖς ῥοαῖς taîs rhoaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥοήν tḕn rhoḗn |
τὼ ῥοᾱ́ tṑ rhoā́ |
τᾱ̀ς ῥοᾱ́ς tā̀s rhoā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥοή rhoḗ |
ῥοᾱ́ rhoā́ |
ῥοαί rhoaí | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ῥοή rhoḗ |
ῥοᾱ́ rhoā́ |
ῥοαί rhoaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | ῥοῆς rhoês |
ῥοαῖν / ῥοαῖῐν / ῥοῇῐν rhoaî(i)n / rhoêiin |
ῥοᾱ́ων / ῥοέ͜ων / ῥοῶν rhoā́ōn / rhoé͜ōn / rhoôn | ||||||||||
Dative | ῥοῇ rhoêi |
ῥοαῖν / ῥοαῖῐν / ῥοῇῐν rhoaî(i)n / rhoêiin |
ῥοῇσῐ / ῥοῇσῐν / ῥοῇς / ῥοαῖς rhoêisi(n) / rhoêis / rhoaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | ῥοήν rhoḗn |
ῥοᾱ́ rhoā́ |
ῥοᾱ́ς rhoā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥοή rhoḗ |
ῥοᾱ́ rhoā́ |
ῥοαί rhoaí | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Descendants
[edit]- Greek: ροή (roḯ)
References
[edit]- ^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*sreu̯-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 630–634
Further reading
[edit]- “ῥοή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥοή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥοή 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.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *srew-
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -η (o-grade)
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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