ῥόχθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Sound word without etymology. Note the formal similarity with ῥόθος (rhóthos, “rushing noise”), ῥοῖβδος (rhoîbdos, “rushing noise”) and ῥοῖζος (rhoîzos, “whistling sound”). The medial -χθ- may be compared with μόχθος (mókhthos, “toil, trouble”), βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”) and ὀχθέω (okhthéō, “to be troubled, angered”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ókʰ.tʰos/ → /ˈrox.θos/ → /ˈrox.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ókʰ.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈrokʰ.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈrox.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈrox.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈrox.θos/

Noun

ῥόχθος • (rhókhthos) m (genitive ῥόχθου); second declension

1. roaring of the sea

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥόχθος; τοῦ ῥόχθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥόχθος ho rhókhthos	τὼ ῥόχθω tṑ rhókhthō	οἱ ῥόχθοι hoi rhókhthoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῥόχθου toû rhókhthou	τοῖν ῥόχθοιν toîn rhókhthoin	τῶν ῥόχθων tôn rhókhthōn
Dative	τῷ ῥόχθῳ tôi rhókhthōi	τοῖν ῥόχθοιν toîn rhókhthoin	τοῖς ῥόχθοις toîs rhókhthois
Accusative	τὸν ῥόχθον tòn rhókhthon	τὼ ῥόχθω tṑ rhókhthō	τοὺς ῥόχθους toùs rhókhthous
Vocative	ῥόχθε rhókhthe	ῥόχθω rhókhthō	ῥόχθοι rhókhthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πᾰλῐ́ρροχθος (palírrhokhthos)
• ῥοχθέω (rhokhthéō)

 

Further reading

• “ῥόχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥόχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥόχθος 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