Ῥίον

See also: ῥίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥίον (rhíon, “headland, promontory”).

Pronunciation

 

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

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥í.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈri.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/

Proper noun

Ῥῐ́ον • (Rhĭ́on) n (genitive Ῥῐ́ου); second declension

1. Rhium; Rio, Achaea, Greece

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ Ῥῐ́ον; τοῦ Ῥῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ Ῥῐ́ον tò Rhĭ́on	τὼ Ῥῐ́ω tṑ Rhĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ Ῥῐ́ᾰ tằ Rhĭ́ă
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥῐ́ου toû Rhĭ́ou	τοῖν Ῥῐ́οιν toîn Rhĭ́oin	τῶν Ῥῐ́ων tôn Rhĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ Ῥῐ́ῳ tôi Rhĭ́ōi	τοῖν Ῥῐ́οιν toîn Rhĭ́oin	τοῖς Ῥῐ́οις toîs Rhĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ Ῥῐ́ον tò Rhĭ́on	τὼ Ῥῐ́ω tṑ Rhĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ Ῥῐ́ᾰ tằ Rhĭ́ă
Vocative	Ῥῐ́ον Rhĭ́on	Ῥῐ́ω Rhĭ́ō	Ῥῐ́ᾰ Rhĭ́ă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ρίο (Río)
• Latin: Rhium

References

• Ῥίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024