ῥυμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to draw”) and related to ἐρύω (erúō, “to draw, tear”), ῥύμη (rhúmē, “force, pressure”) and ῥυτά (rhutá, “reins”). A possible cognate outside Greek is Latin rūdens (“rope, line, halyard”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥yː.mós/ → /ryˈmos/ → /riˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥yː.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ryˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ryˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ryˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈmos/

Noun

ῥῡμός • (rhūmós) m (genitive ῥῡμοῦ); second declension

1. pole of a chariot or car
2. log or block of wood for fuel
3. (astronomy) trail of a shooting star

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥῡμός; τοῦ ῥῡμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥῡμός ho rhūmós	τὼ ῥῡμώ tṑ rhūmṓ	οἱ ῥῡμοί hoi rhūmoí
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῡμοῦ toû rhūmoû	τοῖν ῥῡμοῖν toîn rhūmoîn	τῶν ῥῡμῶν tôn rhūmôn
Dative	τῷ ῥῡμῷ tôi rhūmôi	τοῖν ῥῡμοῖν toîn rhūmoîn	τοῖς ῥῡμοῖς toîs rhūmoîs
Accusative	τὸν ῥῡμόν tòn rhūmón	τὼ ῥῡμώ tṑ rhūmṓ	τοὺς ῥῡμούς toùs rhūmoús
Vocative	ῥῡμέ rhūmé	ῥῡμώ rhūmṓ	ῥῡμοί rhūmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ῥυμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥυμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥυμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥυμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥυμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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