ῥοδισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥοδίζω (rhodízō, “I decorate with roses”) +‎ -μός (-mós, noun suffix), the former from ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥o.diz.mós/ → /ro.ðizˈmos/ → /ro.ðizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥o.diz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ro.dizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ro.ðizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ro.ðizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ro.ðizˈmos/

Noun

ῥοδισμός • (rhodismós) m (genitive ῥοδῐ̈σμοῦ); second declension

1. a ceremony at which graves were decked with roses

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥοδῐ̈σμός; τοῦ ῥοδῐ̈σμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥοδῐ̈σμός ho rhodĭ̈smós	τὼ ῥοδῐ̈σμώ tṑ rhodĭ̈smṓ	οἱ ῥοδῐ̈σμοί hoi rhodĭ̈smoí
Genitive	τοῦ ῥοδῐ̈σμοῦ toû rhodĭ̈smoû	τοῖν ῥοδῐ̈σμοῖν toîn rhodĭ̈smoîn	τῶν ῥοδῐ̈σμῶν tôn rhodĭ̈smôn
Dative	τῷ ῥοδῐ̈σμῷ tôi rhodĭ̈smôi	τοῖν ῥοδῐ̈σμοῖν toîn rhodĭ̈smoîn	τοῖς ῥοδῐ̈σμοῖς toîs rhodĭ̈smoîs
Accusative	τὸν ῥοδῐ̈σμόν tòn rhodĭ̈smón	τὼ ῥοδῐ̈σμώ tṑ rhodĭ̈smṓ	τοὺς ῥοδῐ̈σμούς toùs rhodĭ̈smoús
Vocative	ῥοδῐ̈σμέ rhodĭ̈smé	ῥοδῐ̈σμώ rhodĭ̈smṓ	ῥοδῐ̈σμοί rhodĭ̈smoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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