ῥύσις

ῥύσις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥεῦσις (rheûsis)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *srútis, from *srew- (“to flow, stream”) +‎ *-tis, equivalent to ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, stream, gush”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Cognate with Sanskrit स्रुति (srúti-, “stream, (out)flow, discharge; course, path; drain”) and Lithuanian srū́ti (“to flow, run (of water); to cover oneself with water”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ý.sis/ → /ˈry.sis/ → /ˈri.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ý.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈry.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.sis/

Noun

ῥῠ́σῐς • (rhúsis) f (genitive ῥῠ́σεως); third declension

1. flow
2. the course of a river or stream

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ῥῠ́σῐς; τῆς ῥῠ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῠ́σῐς hē rhúsis	τὼ ῥῠ́σει tṑ rhúsei	αἱ ῥῠ́σεις hai rhúseis
Genitive	τῆς ῥῠ́σεως tês rhúseōs	τοῖν ῥῠσέοιν toîn rhuséoin	τῶν ῥῠ́σεων tôn rhúseōn
Dative	τῇ ῥῠ́σει têi rhúsei	τοῖν ῥῠσέοιν toîn rhuséoin	ταῖς ῥῠ́σεσῐ / ῥῠ́σεσῐν taîs rhúsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥῠ́σῐν tḕn rhúsin	τὼ ῥῠ́σει tṑ rhúsei	τᾱ̀ς ῥῠ́σεις tā̀s rhúseis
Vocative	ῥῠ́σῐ rhúsi	ῥῠ́σει rhúsei	ῥῠ́σεις rhúseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ρύση (rýsi)

References

1. Wodtko, Dagmar S.; Irslinger, Britta; Schneider, Carolin (2008), “*sreu̯-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 630–634

Further reading

• “ῥύσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥύσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥύσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4511 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible