Ῥίον

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 • (Rhíon) 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 Rhíon	τὼ Ῥῐ́ω tṑ Rhíō	τᾰ̀ Ῥῐ́ᾰ tà Rhía
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥῐ́ου toû Rhíou	τοῖν Ῥῐ́οιν toîn Rhíoin	τῶν Ῥῐ́ων tôn Rhíōn
Dative	τῷ Ῥῐ́ῳ tôi Rhíōi	τοῖν Ῥῐ́οιν toîn Rhíoin	τοῖς Ῥῐ́οις toîs Rhíois
Accusative	τὸ Ῥῐ́ον tò Rhíon	τὼ Ῥῐ́ω tṑ Rhíō	τᾰ̀ Ῥῐ́ᾰ tà Rhía
Vocative	Ῥῐ́ον Rhíon	Ῥῐ́ω Rhíō	Ῥῐ́ᾰ Rhía
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024