ῥήξ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēx.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

ῥήξ • (rhḗx) m (genitive ῥηγός); third declension

  1. (Koine, Byzantine) rex (king)
    • Suid., Suda rho.136[1]

Declension

Third declension of ὁ ῥήξ; τοῦ ῥηγός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Plural
Nominative ὁ ῥήξ
ho rhḗx 		οἱ ῥῆγες
hoi rhêges
Genitive τοῦ ῥηγός
toû rhēgós 		τῶν ῥηγῶν
tôn rhēgôn
Dative τῷ ῥηγῐ́
tōî rhēgĭ́ 		τοῖς ῥηξῐ́ / ῥηξῐ́ν
toîs rhēxĭ́(n)
Accusative τὸν ῥῆγᾰ
tòn rhêgă 		τοὺς ῥῆγᾰς
toùs rhêgăs
Vocative ῥήξ
rhḗx 		ῥῆγες
rhêges
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: ρήγας (rígas)
    • → Albanian: rig[1]
    • → Romanian: rigă

References

  • Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1901–1906), “ῥήξ”, in Moschos, Xenofon, transl., Konstantinidis, Michael, editor, Μέγα λεξικόν τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς γλώσσης [Great Dictionary of the Greek Language] (overall work in Katharevousa), Athens: Anestis Konstantinidis, translation of original in English, with supplement
  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “rig”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 371
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