ῥώψ
Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
The word may be related to ῥαπίζω (rhapízō, “to cudgel, thrash”) and also to ῥέπω (rhépō, “to incline”) and ῥέμβω (rhémbō, “to turn in circles”), but connections outside Greek are not found. The word may be of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɔ̌ːps/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /rops/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /rops/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /rops/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /rops/
Noun
ῥώψ • (rhṓps) f (genitive ῥωπός); third declension
- (in the plural) brushwood, underwood
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῥώψ; τῆς ῥωπός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥώψ hē rhṓps | τὼ ῥῶπε tṑ rhôpe | αἱ ῥῶπες hai rhôpes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥωπός tês rhōpós | τοῖν ῥωποῖν toîn rhōpoîn | τῶν ῥωπῶν tôn rhōpôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥωπῐ́ têi rhōpí | τοῖν ῥωποῖν toîn rhōpoîn | ταῖς ῥωψῐ́ / ῥωψῐ́ν taîs rhōpsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥῶπᾰ tḕn rhôpa | τὼ ῥῶπε tṑ rhôpe | τᾱ̀ς ῥῶπᾰς tā̀s rhôpas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥώψ rhṓps | ῥῶπε rhôpe | ῥῶπες rhôpes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ῥωπάκιον (rhōpákion)
- ῥῶπαξ (rhôpax)
- ῥωπάς (rhōpás)
- ῥωπεύω (rhōpeúō)
- ῥωπήεις (rhōpḗeis)
- ῥωπήϊον (rhōpḗïon)
- ῥωπίον (rhōpíon)
- χαμαίρωψ (khamaírōps)
Etymology 2
From Egyptian rms (“ship”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɔ̌ːps/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /rops/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /rops/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /rops/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /rops/
Noun
ῥώψ • (rhṓps) ? (indeclinable)
- kind of Egyptian ship made of papyrus
Further reading
- “ῥώψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥώψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥώψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥώψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥώψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- (no entry for the specified headword) 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