ῥίζις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥í.zis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈri.zis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈri.zis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈri.zis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.zis/
Noun
ῥίζῐς • (rhízis) m (genitive ῥίζῐος); third declension
- Ethiopian animal resembling an elephant
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ ῥῐ́ζῐς; τοῦ ῥῐ́ζῐος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῥῐ́ζῐς ho rhízis | τὼ ῥῐ́ζῐε tṑ rhízie | οἱ ῥῐ́ζῐες hoi rhízies | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῥῐ́ζῐος toû rhízios | τοῖν ῥῐζῐ́οιν toîn rhizíoin | τῶν ῥῐζῐ́ων tôn rhizíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῥῐ́ζῑ tôi rhízī | τοῖν ῥῐζῐ́οιν toîn rhizíoin | τοῖς ῥῐ́ζῐσῐ / ῥῐ́ζῐσῐν toîs rhízisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῥῐ́ζῐν tòn rhízin | τὼ ῥῐ́ζῐε tṑ rhízie | τοὺς ῥῐ́ζῑς / ῥῐ́ζῐᾰς toùs rhízīs / rhízias | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥῐ́ζῐ rhízi | ῥῐ́ζῐε rhízie | ῥῐ́ζῐες rhízies | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ῥίζις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥίζις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette