Ῥαμνοῦς
See also: ῥάμνους
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῥάμνος (rhámnos, “briar, rhamnus”) + -οῦς (-oûs, “-ful”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥am.nûːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ramˈnus/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ramˈnus/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ramˈnus/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ramˈnus/
Proper noun
Ῥᾰμνοῦς • (Rhamnoûs) m (genitive Ῥᾰμνοῦντος); third declension
- Rhamnus, Attica, Greece
- 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausianas Periegeta, Description of Greece 1.33.2
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Ῥᾰμνοῦς; τοῦ Ῥᾰμνοῦντος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Ῥᾰμνοῦς ho Rhamnoûs | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Ῥᾰμνοῦντος toû Rhamnoûntos | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Ῥᾰμνοῦντῐ tôi Rhamnoûnti | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Ῥᾰμνοῦντᾰ tòn Rhamnoûnta | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ῥᾰμνοῦν Rhamnoûn | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ῥαμνούσιος (Rhamnoúsios)
Descendants
- Greek: Ραμνούς (Ramnoús); Ραμνούντας (Ramnoúntas)
- Latin: Rhamnus
References
- “Ῥαμνοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024