ῥυτή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The etymology is unexplained. Osthoff connected Latin rūmex (“sorrel”), while Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin. According to Watkins, of "Mediterranean substrate origin."[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥yː.tɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ryˈte̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ryˈti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ryˈti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /riˈti/
Noun
ῥῡτή • (rhūtḗ) f (genitive ῥῡτῆς); first declension
- rue (Ruta graveolens)
- Synonym: πήγανον (pḗganon)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ῥῡτή; τῆς ῥῡτῆς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥῡτή hē rhūtḗ | τὼ ῥῡτᾱ́ tṑ rhūtā́ | αἱ ῥῡταί hai rhūtaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥῡτῆς tês rhūtês | τοῖν ῥῡταῖν toîn rhūtaîn | τῶν ῥῡτῶν tôn rhūtôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥῡτῇ têi rhūtêi | τοῖν ῥῡταῖν toîn rhūtaîn | ταῖς ῥῡταῖς taîs rhūtaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥῡτήν tḕn rhūtḗn | τὼ ῥῡτᾱ́ tṑ rhūtā́ | τᾱ̀ς ῥῡτᾱ́ς tā̀s rhūtā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥῡτή rhūtḗ | ῥῡτᾱ́ rhūtā́ | ῥῡταί rhūtaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: rūta
References
- “ῥυτή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥυτή 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
- “rue”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.