ῥῖμμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥίπτω (rhíptō, “to throw, hurl, cast”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥îːm.ma/ → /ˈrim.ma/ → /ˈri.ma/

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

Noun

ῥῖμμᾰ • (rhîmmă) n (genitive ῥῑ́μμᾰτος); third declension

1. throw, cast

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ῥῖμμᾰ; τοῦ ῥῑ́μμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥῖμμᾰ tò rhîmmă	τὼ ῥῑ́μμᾰτε tṑ rhī́mmăte	τᾰ̀ ῥῑ́μμᾰτᾰ tằ rhī́mmătă
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῑ́μμᾰτος toû rhī́mmătos	τοῖν ῥῑμμᾰ́τοιν toîn rhīmmắtoin	τῶν ῥῑμμᾰ́των tôn rhīmmắtōn
Dative	τῷ ῥῑ́μμᾰτῐ tôi rhī́mmătĭ	τοῖν ῥῑμμᾰ́τοιν toîn rhīmmắtoin	τοῖς ῥῑ́μμᾰσῐ / ῥῑ́μμᾰσῐν toîs rhī́mmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῥῖμμᾰ tò rhîmmă	τὼ ῥῑ́μμᾰτε tṑ rhī́mmăte	τᾰ̀ ῥῑ́μμᾰτᾰ tằ rhī́mmătă
Vocative	ῥῖμμᾰ rhîmmă	ῥῑ́μμᾰτε rhī́mmăte	ῥῑ́μμᾰτᾰ rhī́mmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ῥῖμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥῖμμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette