ῥυντάκης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥυνδάκη (rhundákē)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *runtaka.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /rynˈta.cis/ → /rinˈda.cis/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /rynˈta.ke̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /rynˈta.cis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /rynˈta.cis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /rinˈda.cis/

Noun

ῥυντάκης • (rhuntákēs) m (genitive ῥυντάκου); first declension

1. An Indian bird of the size of a pigeon

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ῥυντάκης; τοῦ ῥυντάκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥυντάκης ho rhuntákēs	τὼ ῥυντάκᾱ tṑ rhuntákā	οἱ ῥυντάκαι hoi rhuntákai
Genitive	τοῦ ῥυντάκου toû rhuntákou	τοῖν ῥυντάκαιν toîn rhuntákain	τῶν ῥυντακῶν tôn rhuntakôn
Dative	τῷ ῥυντάκῃ tôi rhuntákēi	τοῖν ῥυντάκαιν toîn rhuntákain	τοῖς ῥυντάκαις toîs rhuntákais
Accusative	τὸν ῥυντάκην tòn rhuntákēn	τὼ ῥυντάκᾱ tṑ rhuntákā	τοὺς ῥυντάκᾱς toùs rhuntákās
Vocative	ῥυντάκη rhuntákē	ῥυντάκᾱ rhuntákā	ῥυντάκαι rhuntákai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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