ῥύμη
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Beekes, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to draw”) and related to ἐρύω (erúō, “to draw, tear”), ῥυμός (rhumós, “pole of a chariot”) and ῥυτά (rhutá, “reins”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥y̌ː.mɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈry.me̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈry.mi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈry.mi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.mi/
Noun
[edit]ῥῡ́μη • (rhū́mē) f (genitive ῥῡ́μης); first declension
- force, swing, rush of a body in motion
- rush, charge of soldiers or ships
- street, lane, alley
- slit, chink, crack
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥῡ́μη hē rhū́mē |
τὼ ῥῡ́μᾱ tṑ rhū́mā |
αἱ ῥῦμαι hai rhûmai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥῡ́μης tês rhū́mēs |
τοῖν ῥῡ́μαιν toîn rhū́main |
τῶν ῥῡμῶν tôn rhūmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥῡ́μῃ têi rhū́mēi |
τοῖν ῥῡ́μαιν toîn rhū́main |
ταῖς ῥῡ́μαις taîs rhū́mais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥῡ́μην tḕn rhū́mēn |
τὼ ῥῡ́μᾱ tṑ rhū́mā |
τᾱ̀ς ῥῡ́μᾱς tā̀s rhū́mās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥῡ́μη rhū́mē |
ῥῡ́μᾱ rhū́mā |
ῥῦμαι rhûmai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “ῥύμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥύμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥύμη 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
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