Ῥήγιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̌ː.ɡi.on/ → /ˈri.ʝi.on/ → /ˈri.ʝi.on/

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

Proper noun

Ῥήγῐον • (Rhḗgion) n (genitive Ῥηγῐ́ου); second declension

1. Rhegium, Magna Graecia; Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ Ῥήγῐον; τοῦ Ῥηγῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	τὸ Ῥήγῐον tò Rhḗgion
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥηγῐ́ου toû Rhēgíou
Dative	τῷ Ῥηγῐ́ῳ tôi Rhēgíōi
Accusative	τὸ Ῥήγῐον tò Rhḗgion
Vocative	Ῥήγῐον Rhḗgion
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ῥηγῖνος (Rhēgînos)

Descendants

• Greek: Ρήγιο (Rígio)
• Calabrian Greek: Righi
• Italian: Reggio
• Latin: Rhēgium
• Piedmontese: Res
• Sicilian: Rìggiu
• Spanish: Regio

References

• G4484 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024