ῥοιάς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῥόα (rhóa, “pomegranate”) + -ᾰ́ς (-ás). Not related to ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥oi̯.ás/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ryˈas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ryˈas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ryˈas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /riˈas/
Noun
ῥοιᾰ́ς • (rhoiás) f (genitive ῥοιᾰ́δος); third declension
- corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῥοιᾰ́ς; τῆς ῥοιᾰ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥοιᾰ́ς hē rhoiás | τὼ ῥοιᾰ́δε tṑ rhoiáde | αἱ ῥοιᾰ́δες hai rhoiádes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥοιᾰ́δος tês rhoiádos | τοῖν ῥοιᾰ́δοιν toîn rhoiádoin | τῶν ῥοιᾰ́δων tôn rhoiádōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥοιᾰ́δῐ têi rhoiádi | τοῖν ῥοιᾰ́δοιν toîn rhoiádoin | ταῖς ῥοιᾰ́σῐ / ῥοιᾰ́σῐν taîs rhoiási(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥοιᾰ́δᾰ tḕn rhoiáda | τὼ ῥοιᾰ́δε tṑ rhoiáde | τᾱ̀ς ῥοιᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s rhoiádas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥοιᾰ́ς rhoiás | ῥοιᾰ́δε rhoiáde | ῥοιᾰ́δες rhoiádes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: rhoeas
Further reading
- “ῥοιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥοιάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN