ῥῖψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥίπτω (rhíptō, “to throw”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥îːp.sis/ → /ˈrip.sis/ → /ˈrip.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥îːp.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈrip.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈrip.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈrip.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈrip.sis/

Noun

ῥῖψῐς • (rhîpsĭs) f (genitive ῥῖψεως); third declension

1. A throwing, a hurling
2. (in the plural) glances

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῥῖψῐς; τῆς ῥῑ́ψεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῖψῐς hē rhîpsĭs	τὼ ῥῑ́ψει tṑ rhī́psei	αἱ ῥῑ́ψεις hai rhī́pseis
Genitive	τῆς ῥῑ́ψεως tês rhī́pseōs	τοῖν ῥῑψέοιν toîn rhīpséoin	τῶν ῥῑ́ψεων tôn rhī́pseōn
Dative	τῇ ῥῑ́ψει têi rhī́psei	τοῖν ῥῑψέοιν toîn rhīpséoin	ταῖς ῥῑ́ψεσῐ / ῥῑ́ψεσῐν taîs rhī́psesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥῖψῐν tḕn rhîpsĭn	τὼ ῥῑ́ψει tṑ rhī́psei	τᾱ̀ς ῥῑ́ψεις tā̀s rhī́pseis
Vocative	ῥῖψῐ rhîpsĭ	ῥῑ́ψει rhī́psei	ῥῑ́ψεις rhī́pseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: ρίψη (rípsi) (learned)

References

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