Ῥέα

See also: ῥέα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of disputed origin, with several theories suggested and none widely accepted, such as ἔρα (éra, “ground”) (see ἔραζε (éraze)), ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”), or simply Pre-Greek/Minoan. See Rhea.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥é.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/

Proper noun

Ῥέᾱ • (Rhéā) f (genitive Ῥέᾱς); first declension

Rhea

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ῥέᾱ; τῆς Ῥέᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῥέᾱ hē Rhéā
Genitive	τῆς Ῥέᾱς tês Rhéās
Dative	τῇ Ῥέᾳ têi Rhéāi
Accusative	τὴν Ῥέᾱν tḕn Rhéān
Vocative	Ῥέᾱ Rhéā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Ρέα (Réa)
→ Latin: Rhea
- → Asturian: Rea
- → Catalan: Rea
- → English: Rhea
- → French: Rhéa
- → Galician: Rea
- → Italian: Rea
- → Portuguese: Rhea
- → Romanian: Rhea
- → Spanish: Rea
→ Turkish: Rheia

References

Hopkinson, N, "Rhea in Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus" in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 104 (1984), 176–177
ῥέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon
Nilsson, Martin Persson (1 January 1950). The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion. Biblo & Tannen Publishers.

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