Ῥέα

See also: ῥέα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of disputed origin, with several theories suggested and none widely accepted, such as ἔρα (éra, “ground”) (see ἔραζε (éraze)), ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”), or simply Pre-Greek/Minoan. See Rhea.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥é.aː/ → /ˈre.a/ → /ˈre.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥é.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/

Proper noun

Ῥέᾱ • (Rhéā) f (genitive Ῥέᾱς); first declension

1. Rhea

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ῥέᾱ; τῆς Ῥέᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῥέᾱ hē Rhéā
Genitive	τῆς Ῥέᾱς tês Rhéās
Dative	τῇ Ῥέᾳ têi Rhéāi
Accusative	τὴν Ῥέᾱν tḕn Rhéān
Vocative	Ῥέᾱ Rhéā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: Ρέα (Réa)
• → Latin: Rhea
  • → Asturian: Rea
  • → Catalan: Rea
  • → English: Rhea
  • → French: Rhéa
  • → Galician: Rea
  • → Italian: Rea
  • → Portuguese: Rhea
  • → Romanian: Rhea
  • → Spanish: Rea
• → Turkish: Rheia

References

• Hopkinson, N, "Rhea in Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus" in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 104 (1984), 176–177
• ῥέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon
• Nilsson, Martin Persson (1 January 1950). The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion. Biblo & Tannen Publishers.

Further reading

• “Ῥέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ῥέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ῥέα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Ῥέα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
• http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/Plethon/Rhea.html