ῥώθων

See also: ρώθων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is the same as in πώγων (pṓgōn) and γνάθων (gnáthōn), but the root is unknown. Usually, ῥόθος (rhóthos, “roaring”) is connected, which presupposes an original meaning "snorer", "rattler". Alternatively, one could consider a Pre-Greek origin for this word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɔ̌ː.tʰɔːn/ → /ˈro.θon/ → /ˈro.θon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɔ̌ː.tʰɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈro.tʰon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.θon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.θon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈro.θon/

Noun

ῥώθων • (rhṓthōn) m (genitive ῥώθωνος); third declension

1. (mostly in the plural) nostril

   Synonym: μυκτήρ (muktḗr)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ ῥώθων; τοῦ ῥώθωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥώθων ho rhṓthōn	τὼ ῥώθωνε tṑ rhṓthōne	οἱ ῥώθωνες hoi rhṓthōnes
Genitive	τοῦ ῥώθωνος toû rhṓthōnos	τοῖν ῥωθώνοιν toîn rhōthṓnoin	τῶν ῥωθώνων tôn rhōthṓnōn
Dative	τῷ ῥώθωνῐ tôi rhṓthōni	τοῖν ῥωθώνοιν toîn rhōthṓnoin	τοῖς ῥώθωσῐ / ῥώθωσῐν toîs rhṓthōsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ῥώθωνᾰ tòn rhṓthōna	τὼ ῥώθωνε tṑ rhṓthōne	τοὺς ῥώθωνᾰς toùs rhṓthōnas
Vocative	ῥώθων rhṓthōn	ῥώθωνε rhṓthōne	ῥώθωνες rhṓthōnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: ῥωθώνιον (rhōthṓnion) (from diminutive)
  • Greek: ρουθούνι (routhoúni)
• → Greek: ρώθων (róthon)

Further reading

• “ῥώθων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥώθων 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