ῥαψῳδός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥάπτω (rháptō, “to sew”) +‎ ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) +‎ -ος (-os).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ap.sɔːi̯.dós/ → /rap.soˈðos/ → /rap.soˈðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ap.sɔːi̯.dós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /rap.soˈdos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /rap.soˈðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /rap.soˈðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /rap.soˈðos/

Noun

ῥαψῳδός • (rhapsōidós) m (genitive ῥαψῳδοῦ); second declension

1. rhapsodist
2. One who performs the poetry of a poet for an audience; not a writer of poetry

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥαψῳδός; τοῦ ῥαψῳδοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥαψῳδός ho rhapsōidós	τὼ ῥαψῳδώ tṑ rhapsōidṓ	οἱ ῥαψῳδοί hoi rhapsōidoí
Genitive	τοῦ ῥαψῳδοῦ toû rhapsōidoû	τοῖν ῥαψῳδοῖν toîn rhapsōidoîn	τῶν ῥαψῳδῶν tôn rhapsōidôn
Dative	τῷ ῥαψῳδῷ tôi rhapsōidôi	τοῖν ῥαψῳδοῖν toîn rhapsōidoîn	τοῖς ῥαψῳδοῖς toîs rhapsōidoîs
Accusative	τὸν ῥαψῳδόν tòn rhapsōidón	τὼ ῥαψῳδώ tṑ rhapsōidṓ	τοὺς ῥαψῳδούς toùs rhapsōidoús
Vocative	ῥαψῳδέ rhapsōidé	ῥαψῳδώ rhapsōidṓ	ῥαψῳδοί rhapsōidoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῥαψῳδέω (rhapsōidéō)
• ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ (rhapsōidíā)
• ῥαψῳδῐκός (rhapsōidikós)

Descendants

• → French: rhapsode

References

• “ῥαψῳδός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥαψῳδός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥαψῳδός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bard idem, page 62.
  • minstrel idem, page 531.
  • reciter idem, page 679.
  • rhapsodist idem, page 712.
  • riddling idem, page 713.
  • singer idem, page 777.
  • troubadour idem, page 897.