ῥυθμός
See also: ρυθμός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ῥῠσμός (rhusmós) – Ionic
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós, corresponding to Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰmos, ultimately from *srew- (“to flow”). Related to ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ytʰ.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /rytʰˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ryθˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ryθˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /riθˈmos/
Noun
ῥῠθμός • (rhuthmós) m (genitive ῥῠθμοῦ); second declension
- a repeating, regular motion, vibration
- measured motion, rhythm
- measure, proportion, symmetry
- proportion, arrangement, order
- state, condition
- form, shape
- manner, fashion
Declension
Second declension of ὁ ῥῠθμός; τοῦ ῥῠθμοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῥῠθμός ho rhuthmós | τὼ ῥῠθμώ tṑ rhuthmṓ | οἱ ῥῠθμοί hoi rhuthmoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῥῠθμοῦ toû rhuthmoû | τοῖν ῥῠθμοῖν toîn rhuthmoîn | τῶν ῥῠθμῶν tôn rhuthmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῥῠθμῷ tôi rhuthmôi | τοῖν ῥῠθμοῖν toîn rhuthmoîn | τοῖς ῥῠθμοῖς toîs rhuthmoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῥῠθμόν tòn rhuthmón | τὼ ῥῠθμώ tṑ rhuthmṓ | τοὺς ῥῠθμούς toùs rhuthmoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥῠθμέ rhuthmé | ῥῠθμώ rhuthmṓ | ῥῠθμοί rhuthmoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἄρρυθμος (árrhuthmos, “arhythmic”)
- ἐν ῥυθμῷ (en rhuthmôi, “in time”)
Descendants
- Greek: ρυθμός (rythmós)
- → Latin: rhythmus
- English: rhythmus, rhythm
- → Japanese: リズム (rizumu)
- → Malay: ritma
- → Korean: 리듬 (rideum)
- → Turkish: ritim
- Asturian: ritmu
- Catalan: ritme
- French: rythme
- → Turkish: ritm
- Galician: ritmo
- → German: Rhythmus
- Irish: rithim
- Italian: ritmo
- Polish: rytm
- Portuguese: ritmo
- Spanish: ritmo
- → Hungarian: ritmus
- → Irish: rithim
- → Russian: ритм (ritm)
Further reading
- “ῥυθμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥυθμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥυθμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ῥυθμός”, 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.
- cadence idem, page 108.
- fashion idem, page 308.
- kind idem, page 469.
- manner idem, page 512.
- measure idem, page 520.
- regularity idem, page 687.
- rhythm idem, page 712.
- sort idem, page 795.
- symmetry idem, page 850.
- time idem, page 875.
- uniformity idem, page 921.
- English: rhythmus, rhythm