ῥύγχος

See also: ρύγχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srungʰ- and related to Old Armenian ռունգն (ṙungn, “nose”). See also Proto-Celtic *srognā (“nose”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ýŋ.kʰos/ → /ˈryŋ.xos/ → /ˈriŋ.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ýŋ.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈryŋ.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈryŋ.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈryŋ.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈriŋ.xos/

Noun

ῥῠ́γχος • (rhúnkhos) n (genitive ῥῠ́γχους); third declension

1. snout, the nose of an animal, muzzle
2. beak of a bird, bill

   Synonym: ῥάμφος (rhámphos)

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ῥῠ́γχος; τοῦ ῥῠ́γχους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥῠ́γχος tò rhúnkhos	τὼ ῥῠ́γχει tṑ rhúnkhei	τᾰ̀ ῥῠ́γχη tà rhúnkhē
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῠ́γχους toû rhúnkhous	τοῖν ῥῠγχοῖν toîn rhunkhoîn	τῶν ῥῠγχῶν tôn rhunkhôn
Dative	τῷ ῥῠ́γχει tôi rhúnkhei	τοῖν ῥῠγχοῖν toîn rhunkhoîn	τοῖς ῥῠ́γχεσῐ / ῥῠ́γχεσῐν toîs rhúnkhesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῥῠ́γχος tò rhúnkhos	τὼ ῥῠ́γχει tṑ rhúnkhei	τᾰ̀ ῥῠ́γχη tà rhúnkhē
Vocative	ῥῠ́γχος rhúnkhos	ῥῠ́γχει rhúnkhei	ῥῠ́γχη rhúnkhē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀξῠ́ρρῠγχος (oxúrrhunkhos)

Descendants

• Greek: ρύγχος (rýnchos)

References

• “ῥύγχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥύγχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥύγχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beak idem, page 66.