ῥύγχος
See also: ρύγχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srungʰ- and related to Old Armenian ռունգն (ṙungn, “nose”). See also Proto-Celtic *srognā (“nose”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ýŋ.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈryŋ.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈryŋ.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈryŋ.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈriŋ.xos/
Noun
ῥῠ́γχος • (rhúnkhos) n (genitive ῥῠ́γχους); third declension
- snout, the nose of an animal, muzzle
- beak of a bird, bill
- Synonym: ῥάμφος (rhámphos)
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ ῥῠ́γχος; τοῦ ῥῠ́γχους (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ῥῠ́γχος tò rhúnkhos | τὼ ῥῠ́γχει tṑ rhúnkhei | τᾰ̀ ῥῠ́γχη tà rhúnkhē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῥῠ́γχους toû rhúnkhous | τοῖν ῥῠγχοῖν toîn rhunkhoîn | τῶν ῥῠγχῶν tôn rhunkhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῥῠ́γχει tôi rhúnkhei | τοῖν ῥῠγχοῖν toîn rhunkhoîn | τοῖς ῥῠ́γχεσῐ / ῥῠ́γχεσῐν toîs rhúnkhesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ῥῠ́γχος tò rhúnkhos | τὼ ῥῠ́γχει tṑ rhúnkhei | τᾰ̀ ῥῠ́γχη tà rhúnkhē | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥῠ́γχος rhúnkhos | ῥῠ́γχει rhúnkhei | ῥῠ́γχη rhúnkhē | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀξῠ́ρρῠγχος (oxúrrhunkhos)
Descendants
- Greek: ρύγχος (rýnchos)
References
- “ῥύγχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥύγχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥύγχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- beak idem, page 66.