ῥοῦς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
(At least in the sense of stream, flow) Contracted form of ῥόος (rhóos, “flow”), ultimately from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ûːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /rus/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /rus/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /rus/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /rus/
Noun
ῥοῦς • (rhoûs) m (genitive ῥοῦ); second declension or
ῥοῦς • (rhoûs) m (genitive ῥοός); third declension
- sumac (Rhus coriaria)
- its fruit, used in medicine
- perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)
- stream, flow of water, current
Inflection
Second declension:
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ῥοῦς ho rhoûs |
τὼ ῥώ tṑ rhṓ |
οἱ ῥοῖ hoi rhoî | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥοῦ toû rhoû |
τοῖν ῥοῖν toîn rhoîn |
τῶν ῥῶν tôn rhôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥῷ tōî rhōî |
τοῖν ῥοῖν toîn rhoîn |
τοῖς ῥοῖς toîs rhoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ῥοῦν tòn rhoûn |
τὼ ῥώ tṑ rhṓ |
τοὺς ῥοῦς toùs rhoûs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥοῦ rhoû |
ῥώ rhṓ |
ῥοῖ rhoî | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Third declension:
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ / ἡ ῥοῦς ho / hē rhoûs |
τὼ ῥόε tṑ rhóe |
οἱ / αἱ ῥόες hoi / hai rhóes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ / τῆς ῥοός toû / tês rhoós |
τοῖν ῥοοῖν toîn rhooîn |
τῶν ῥοῶν tôn rhoôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ / τῇ ῥοΐ tōî / tēî rhoḯ |
τοῖν ῥοοῖν toîn rhooîn |
τοῖς / ταῖς ῥουσί / ῥουσίν toîs / taîs rhousí(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν / τὴν ῥοῦν tòn / tḕn rhoûn |
τὼ ῥόε tṑ rhóe |
τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς ῥοῦς toùs / tā̀s rhoûs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥοῦ rhoû |
ῥόε rhóe |
ῥόες rhóes | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Rhus
Further reading
- “ῥοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥοῦς 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