Ῥοῦφος

See also: Ρούφος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the Latin Rūfus (a masculine cognomen), from rūfus (“red”, “reddish”; “red-haired”, “red-headed”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ûː.pʰos/ → /ˈru.ɸos/ → /ˈru.fos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ûː.pʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈru.pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈru.ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈru.fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈru.fos/

Proper noun

Ῥοῦφος • (Rhoûphos) m (genitive Ῥούφου); second declension

1. Rufus

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Ῥοῦφος; τοῦ Ῥούφου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῥοῦφος ho Rhoûphos
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥούφου toû Rhoúphou
Dative	τῷ Ῥούφῳ tôi Rhoúphōi
Accusative	τὸν Ῥοῦφον tòn Rhoûphon
Vocative	Ῥοῦφε Rhoûphe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ρούφος (Roúfos)

References

• G4504 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

Further reading

• Rufus (Roman cognomen) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia