ῥοιάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥόα (rhóa, “pomegranate”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ắs). Not related to ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥oi̯.ás/ → /ryˈas/ → /riˈas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥oi̯.ás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ryˈas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ryˈas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ryˈas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈas/

Noun

ῥοιᾰ́ς • (rhoiắs) f (genitive ῥοιᾰ́δος); third declension

1. corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῥοιᾰ́ς; τῆς ῥοιᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥοιᾰ́ς hē rhoiắs	τὼ ῥοιᾰ́δε tṑ rhoiắde	αἱ ῥοιᾰ́δες hai rhoiắdes
Genitive	τῆς ῥοιᾰ́δος tês rhoiắdos	τοῖν ῥοιᾰ́δοιν toîn rhoiắdoin	τῶν ῥοιᾰ́δων tôn rhoiắdōn
Dative	τῇ ῥοιᾰ́δῐ têi rhoiắdĭ	τοῖν ῥοιᾰ́δοιν toîn rhoiắdoin	ταῖς ῥοιᾰ́σῐ / ῥοιᾰ́σῐν taîs rhoiắsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥοιᾰ́δᾰ tḕn rhoiắdă	τὼ ῥοιᾰ́δε tṑ rhoiắde	τᾱ̀ς ῥοιᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s rhoiắdăs
Vocative	ῥοιᾰ́ς rhoiắs	ῥοιᾰ́δε rhoiắde	ῥοιᾰ́δες rhoiắdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: rhoeas

Further reading

• “ῥοιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥοιάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN