ῥῶσταξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥώννῡμι (rhṓnnūmi, “to have strength or might”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɔ̂ːs.taks/ → /ˈros.taks/ → /ˈros.taks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɔ̂ːs.taks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈros.taks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈros.taks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈros.taks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈros.taks/

Noun

ῥῶστᾰξ • (rhôstax) m (genitive ῥώστᾰκος); third declension

1. stand for putting anything on

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ῥῶστᾰξ; τοῦ ῥώστᾰκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥῶστᾰξ ho rhôstax	τὼ ῥώστᾰκε tṑ rhṓstake	οἱ ῥώστᾰκες hoi rhṓstakes
Genitive	τοῦ ῥώστᾰκος toû rhṓstakos	τοῖν ῥωστᾰ́κοιν toîn rhōstákoin	τῶν ῥωστᾰ́κων tôn rhōstákōn
Dative	τῷ ῥώστᾰκῐ tôi rhṓstaki	τοῖν ῥωστᾰ́κοιν toîn rhōstákoin	τοῖς ῥώστᾰξῐ / ῥώστᾰξῐν toîs rhṓstaxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ῥώστᾰκᾰ tòn rhṓstaka	τὼ ῥώστᾰκε tṑ rhṓstake	τοὺς ῥώστᾰκᾰς toùs rhṓstakas
Vocative	ῥῶστᾰξ rhôstax	ῥώστᾰκε rhṓstake	ῥώστᾰκες rhṓstakes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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