ῥινός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥iː.nós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /riˈnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /riˈnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /riˈnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /riˈnos/
Noun
ῥῑνός • (rhīnós) f
- genitive singular of ῥῑ́ς (rhī́s)
Noun
ῥῑνός • (rhīnós) f (genitive ῥῑνοῦ); second declension
- (sense: skin)
- skin of a man or a beast
- leather
- (sense: hide)
- a hide of a beast
- shield
Inflection
Second declension of ἡ ῥῑνός; τῆς ῥῑνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥῑνός hē rhīnós | τὼ ῥῑνώ tṑ rhīnṓ | αἱ ῥῑνοί hai rhīnoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥῑνοῦ tês rhīnoû | τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν toîn rhīnoîn | τῶν ῥῑνῶν tôn rhīnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥῑνῷ têi rhīnôi | τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν toîn rhīnoîn | ταῖς ῥῑνοῖς taîs rhīnoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥῑνόν tḕn rhīnón | τὼ ῥῑνώ tṑ rhīnṓ | τᾱ̀ς ῥῑνούς tā̀s rhīnoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥῑνέ rhīné | ῥῑνώ rhīnṓ | ῥῑνοί rhīnoí | ||||||||||
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Second declension of ῥῑνός; ῥῑνοῦ (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ῥῑνός rhīnós | ῥῑνώ rhīnṓ | ῥῑνοί rhīnoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | ῥῑνοῦ / ῥῑνοῖο / ῥῑνόο rhīnoû / rhīnoîo / rhīnóo | ῥῑνοῖῐν rhīnoîin | ῥῑνῶν rhīnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | ῥῑνῷ rhīnôi | ῥῑνοῖῐν rhīnoîin | ῥῑνοῖσῐ / ῥῑνοῖσῐν / ῥῑνοῖς rhīnoîsi(n) / rhīnoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | ῥῑνόν rhīnón | ῥῑνώ rhīnṓ | ῥῑνούς rhīnoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥῑνέ rhīné | ῥῑνώ rhīnṓ | ῥῑνοί rhīnoí | ||||||||||
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Alternative forms
- ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, “hide, shield”)
Related terms
Not to be confused with similar words meaning nose from ῥῑ́ς (rhī́s)
or similar words meaning file, rasp from ἡ ῥίνη (rhínē)
- εὔρῑνος (eúrīnos, “of good leather”), ἐΰρρῑνος (eǘrrhīnos) (Epic)
- πολύρρῑνος (polúrrhīnos, “with many hides: of σάκος”)
- ῥῑνόβατος m (rhīnóbatos, “a rough-skinned fish”)
- ῥῑνοδέψης m (rhīnodépsēs, “leather-dresser”)
- ῥῑνοκόλλητος (rhīnokóllētos, “made of glued hides”)
- ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, “the hide”)
- ῥῑνοπῠ́λη f (rhīnopúlē, “side-gate, wicket”)
- ῥῑνοτόμος (rhīnotómos, “piercing shields”)
- ῥῑνοτόρος (rhīnotóros, “hide-piercing, shield-piercing”)
References
- “ῥινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥινός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ῥινός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hide idem, page 398.
- skin idem, page 781.