ῥύσιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ῥύτιον (rhútion) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to tear, dig, burrow, gather”), the same root of ἐρύω (erúō, “to draw, drag, pull”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥y̌ː.si.on/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈry.si.on/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.si.on/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.si.on/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.si.on/

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Noun

ῥῡ́σῐον • (rhū́sĭon) n (genitive ῥῡσῐ́ου); second declension

surety, pledge
Synonyms: ἐγγῠ́η (engŭ́ē), ἐνέχῠρον (enékhŭron), ὑποθήκη (hupothḗkē)
property held as a compensation
booty, prey, that which is dragged away
reprisal, retaliation
(in the plural) restitution, deliverance

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῥῡ́σῐον; τοῦ ῥῡσῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥῡ́σῐον tò rhū́sĭon	τὼ ῥῡσῐ́ω tṑ rhūsĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ῥῡ́σῐᾰ tằ rhū́sĭă
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῡσῐ́ου toû rhūsĭ́ou	τοῖν ῥῡσῐ́οιν toîn rhūsĭ́oin	τῶν ῥῡσῐ́ων tôn rhūsĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ῥῡσῐ́ῳ tôi rhūsĭ́ōi	τοῖν ῥῡσῐ́οιν toîn rhūsĭ́oin	τοῖς ῥῡσῐ́οις toîs rhūsĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ῥῡ́σῐον tò rhū́sĭon	τὼ ῥῡσῐ́ω tṑ rhūsĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ῥῡ́σῐᾰ tằ rhū́sĭă
Vocative	ῥῡ́σῐον rhū́sĭon	ῥῡσῐ́ω rhūsĭ́ō	ῥῡ́σῐᾰ rhū́sĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

ῥυσιάζω (rhusiázō)

“ῥύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ῥύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ῥύσιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ῥύσιον 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