ῥώξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *wreh₁ǵ-, the same root of ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi, “to break”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɔ̌ːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /roks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /roks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /roks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /roks/
Noun
ῥώξ • (rhṓx) f (genitive ῥωγός); third declension
- breach, narrow passage
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῥώξ; τῆς ῥωγός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥώξ hē rhṓx | τὼ ῥῶγε tṑ rhôge | αἱ ῥῶγες hai rhôges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥωγός tês rhōgós | τοῖν ῥωγοῖν toîn rhōgoîn | τῶν ῥωγῶν tôn rhōgôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥωγῐ́ têi rhōgí | τοῖν ῥωγοῖν toîn rhōgoîn | ταῖς ῥωξῐ́ / ῥωξῐ́ν taîs rhōxí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥῶγᾰ tḕn rhôga | τὼ ῥῶγε tṑ rhôge | τᾱ̀ς ῥῶγᾰς tā̀s rhôgas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥώξ rhṓx | ῥῶγε rhôge | ῥῶγες rhôges | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ῥωγαλέος (rhōgaléos)
- ῥωγάς (rhōgás)
- ῥωγή (rhōgḗ)
- ῥωγμή (rhōgmḗ)
- ῥωγμοειδής (rhōgmoeidḗs)
- ῥωγμός (rhōgmós)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɔ̌ːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /roks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /roks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /roks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /roks/
Noun
ῥώξ • (rhṓx) f (genitive ῥωγός); third declension
- Alternative form of ῥάξ (rháx)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῥώξ; τῆς ῥωγός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥώξ hē rhṓx | τὼ ῥῶγε tṑ rhôge | αἱ ῥῶγες hai rhôges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥωγός tês rhōgós | τοῖν ῥωγοῖν toîn rhōgoîn | τῶν ῥωγῶν tôn rhōgôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥωγῐ́ têi rhōgí | τοῖν ῥωγοῖν toîn rhōgoîn | ταῖς ῥωξῐ́ / ῥωξῐ́ν taîs rhōxí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥῶγᾰ tḕn rhôga | τὼ ῥῶγε tṑ rhôge | τᾱ̀ς ῥῶγᾰς tā̀s rhôgas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥώξ rhṓx | ῥῶγε rhôge | ῥῶγες rhôges | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ρώγα (róga)
- >? Proto-Albanian: *ruśśa-[1]
- Albanian: rrush
Further reading
- “ῥώξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥώξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥώξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥώξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥώξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ῥώξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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
References
- Schumacher, Stefan; Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 213