ῥικνός

Ancient Greek[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to twist, weave, bind”). Cognate with Latin rīca (“veil”), English wry, German reihen (“to crimp”) and Ancient Greek ῥοικός (rhoikós, “bent, crooked”).

ῥικνός • (rhiknós) m (feminine ῥικνή, neuter ῥικνόν); first/second declension

First and second declension of ῥικνός; ῥικνή; ῥικνόν (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ῥικνός rhiknós	ῥικνή rhiknḗ	ῥικνόν rhiknón	ῥικνώ rhiknṓ	ῥικνᾱ́ rhiknā́	ῥικνώ rhiknṓ	ῥικνοί rhiknoí	ῥικναί rhiknaí	ῥικνᾰ́ rhikná
Genitive	ῥικνοῦ rhiknoû	ῥικνῆς rhiknês	ῥικνοῦ rhiknoû	ῥικνοῖν rhiknoîn	ῥικναῖν rhiknaîn	ῥικνοῖν rhiknoîn	ῥικνῶν rhiknôn	ῥικνῶν rhiknôn	ῥικνῶν rhiknôn
Dative	ῥικνῷ rhiknôi	ῥικνῇ rhiknêi	ῥικνῷ rhiknôi	ῥικνοῖν rhiknoîn	ῥικναῖν rhiknaîn	ῥικνοῖν rhiknoîn	ῥικνοῖς rhiknoîs	ῥικναῖς rhiknaîs	ῥικνοῖς rhiknoîs
Accusative	ῥικνόν rhiknón	ῥικνήν rhiknḗn	ῥικνόν rhiknón	ῥικνώ rhiknṓ	ῥικνᾱ́ rhiknā́	ῥικνώ rhiknṓ	ῥικνούς rhiknoús	ῥικνᾱ́ς rhiknā́s	ῥικνᾰ́ rhikná
Vocative	ῥικνέ rhikné	ῥικνή rhiknḗ	ῥικνόν rhiknón	ῥικνώ rhiknṓ	ῥικνᾱ́ rhiknā́	ῥικνώ rhiknṓ	ῥικνοί rhiknoí	ῥικναί rhiknaí	ῥικνᾰ́ rhikná
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ῥικνῶς rhiknôs			ῥικνότερος rhiknóteros			ῥικνότᾰτος rhiknótatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ῥικνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ῥικνός 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