Ῥῆνος

See also: Ρήνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From a Gaulish *Rēnos (which was also the source of Proto-Germanic *Rīnaz). The Greek form is recorded in Strabo’s Geographica (1.4.3), written between 20 BC and AD 20, slightly later than the Latin equivalent Rhenus (Cicerio, In Pisonem, ca. 55 BCE).
The Gaulish name is from Proto-Celtic *rēnos, from the Proto-Indo-European root *rey- (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.nos/ → /ˈri.nos/ → /ˈri.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈre̝.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.nos/

Proper noun

Ῥῆνος • (Rhênos) m (genitive Ῥήνου); second declension

1. the river Rhine

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Ῥῆνος; τοῦ Ῥήνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῥῆνος ho Rhênos
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥήνου toû Rhḗnou
Dative	τῷ Ῥήνῳ tôi Rhḗnōi
Accusative	τὸν Ῥῆνον tòn Rhênon
Vocative	Ῥῆνε Rhêne
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Afrikaans: Ryn
• Albanian: Rhein
• Alemannic German: Rhein
• Amharic: ራይን (rayn)
• Arabic: راين
• Basque: Rhin
• Breton: Roen
• Bulgarian: Рейн (Rejn)
• Catalan: Rin
• Chuvash: Рейн (Rejn)
• Corsican: Renu
• Czech: Rýn
• Danish: Rhinen
• Dutch: Rijn
• English: Rhine
• Estonian: Rein
• Finnish: Rein
• French: Rhin
• Galician: Rhin
• German: Rhein

  Central Franconian: Rhing

• Hebrew: רינוס
• Hungarian: Rajna
• Icelandic: Rín
• Indonesian: Rhein
• Irish: Réin
• Italian: Reno
• Japanese: ライン (Rain)
• Korean: 라인 (rain)
• Latin: Rhēnus
• Latvian: Reina
• Lithuanian: Reinas
• Lombard: Renu
• Low German: Rhien
• Luxembourgish: Rhäin
• Malaysian: Rhine
• Marathi: र्‍हाइन (r‍hāin)
• Norwegian: Rhinen
• Occitan: Ren
• Old English: Rīn
• Persian: راین
• Polish: Ren
• Portuguese: Reno
• Quechua: Rhein
• Romanian: Rin
• Romansch: Rain
• Russian: Рейн (Rejn)
• Serbo-Croatian: Рајна, Rajna
• Sicilian: Rinu
• Slovak: Rýn
• Slovene: Ren
• Spanish: Rin
• Swahili: Rhine
• Swedish: Rhen
• Turkish: Ren
• Ukrainian: Рейн (Rejn)
• Welsh: Rhein
• West Frisian: Ryn

Descendants

• Armenian: Հռենոս (Hṙenos)
• Greek: Ρήνος (Rínos)

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024

Further reading

• Rhine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia