ῥῆον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥᾶ (rhâ)

Etymology

From Middle Persian or a closely related language, from Proto-Iranian *(h)rabā́š (“rhubarb, fennel”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.on/ → /ˈri.on/ → /ˈri.on/

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

Noun

ῥῆον • (rhêon) n (genitive ῥήου); second declension

1. rhubarb (probably Rheum rhabarbarum)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῥῆον; τοῦ ῥήου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥῆον tò rhêon	τὼ ῥήω tṑ rhḗō	τᾰ̀ ῥῆᾰ tà rhêa
Genitive	τοῦ ῥήου toû rhḗou	τοῖν ῥήοιν toîn rhḗoin	τῶν ῥήων tôn rhḗōn
Dative	τῷ ῥήῳ tôi rhḗōi	τοῖν ῥήοιν toîn rhḗoin	τοῖς ῥήοις toîs rhḗois
Accusative	τὸ ῥῆον tò rhêon	τὼ ῥήω tṑ rhḗō	τᾰ̀ ῥῆᾰ tà rhêa
Vocative	ῥῆον rhêon	ῥήω rhḗō	ῥῆᾰ rhêa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: rhēum
• → Translingual: Rheum

References

• J.P. Mallory & D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "dew" (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), 158-9.
• Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italian Languages, s.v. "rōs, rōris" (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 526-7.
• Nourai, Ali. 2013. An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and Other Indo-European Languages. Index of Words in Different Languages Vol. 1 Vol. 1. p.130.
• Lebedynsky, Iaroslav. Les Sarmates : Amazones et lanciers cuirassés entre Oural et Danube. Paris: Editions Errance, 2002.

Further reading

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