ῥώθων
See also: ρώθων
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is the same as in πώγων (pṓgōn) and γνάθων (gnáthōn), but the root is unknown. Usually, ῥόθος (rhóthos, “roaring”) is connected, which presupposes an original meaning "snorer", "rattler". Alternatively, one could consider a Pre-Greek origin for this word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɔ̌ː.tʰɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈro.tʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈro.θon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈro.θon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈro.θon/
Noun
ῥώθων • (rhṓthōn) m (genitive ῥώθωνος); third declension
- (mostly in the plural) nostril
- Synonym: μυκτήρ (muktḗr)
Declension
Third declension of ὁ ῥώθων; τοῦ ῥώθωνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῥώθων ho rhṓthōn | τὼ ῥώθωνε tṑ rhṓthōne | οἱ ῥώθωνες hoi rhṓthōnes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῥώθωνος toû rhṓthōnos | τοῖν ῥωθώνοιν toîn rhōthṓnoin | τῶν ῥωθώνων tôn rhōthṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῥώθωνῐ tôi rhṓthōni | τοῖν ῥωθώνοιν toîn rhōthṓnoin | τοῖς ῥώθωσῐ / ῥώθωσῐν toîs rhṓthōsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῥώθωνᾰ tòn rhṓthōna | τὼ ῥώθωνε tṑ rhṓthōne | τοὺς ῥώθωνᾰς toùs rhṓthōnas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥώθων rhṓthōn | ῥώθωνε rhṓthōne | ῥώθωνες rhṓthōnes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Byzantine Greek: ῥωθώνιον (rhōthṓnion) (from diminutive)
- Greek: ρουθούνι (routhoúni)
- → Greek: ρώθων (róthon)
Further reading
- “ῥώθων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥώθων 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