αἱμορροΐς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αἱμο- (haimo-, “blood”) +‎ ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”) +‎ -ίς (-ís). Also serves as the feminine of αἱμόρροος (haimórrhoos, “flowing with blood”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hai̯.mor̥.r̥o.ís/ → /ɛ.mor.roˈis/ → /e.mo.roˈis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hai̯.mor̥.r̥o.ís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ɛ.mor.roˈis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɛ.mor.roˈis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.mor.roˈis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.mo.roˈis/

Noun

αἱμορροΐς • (haimorrhoḯs) f (genitive αἱμορροΐδος); third declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) veins liable to discharge blood, especially haemorrhoids, piles
2. a kind of shellfish, perhaps Aporrhais pespelecani

Declension

Third declension of ἡ αἱμορροΐς; τῆς αἱμορροῐ̈́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αἱμορροΐς hē haimorrhoḯs	τὼ αἱμορροῐ̈́δε tṑ haimorrhoḯde	αἱ αἱμορροῐ̈́δες hai haimorrhoḯdes
Genitive	τῆς αἱμορροῐ̈́δος tês haimorrhoḯdos	τοῖν αἱμορροῐ̈́δοιν toîn haimorrhoḯdoin	τῶν αἱμορροῐ̈́δων tôn haimorrhoḯdōn
Dative	τῇ αἱμορροῐ̈́δῐ têi haimorrhoḯdi	τοῖν αἱμορροῐ̈́δοιν toîn haimorrhoḯdoin	ταῖς αἱμορροῐ̈́σῐ / αἱμορροῐ̈́σῐν taîs haimorrhoḯsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν αἱμορροῐ̈́δᾰ tḕn haimorrhoḯda	τὼ αἱμορροῐ̈́δε tṑ haimorrhoḯde	τᾱ̀ς αἱμορροῐ̈́δᾰς tā̀s haimorrhoḯdas
Vocative	αἱμορροΐς haimorrhoḯs	αἱμορροῐ̈́δε haimorrhoḯde	αἱμορροῐ̈́δες haimorrhoḯdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: αιμορροΐδα (aimorroḯda)
• → Belarusian: гемаро́й (hjemarój)
• → Bulgarian: хеморои́д (hemoroíd)
• → Macedonian: хемороид (hemoroid)
• → Russian: геморро́й (gemorrój)
• → Turkish: hemoroit
• → Ukrainian: геморо́й (hemorój)
• → Volapük: hemoroid
• → Latin: haemorrhoidae
  • → Catalan: hemorroide (learned)
  • → Czech: hemoroid
  • → Danish: hæmoride, hæmorroide
  • → Middle English: emeroides, emerowdes, emeroydez, emoroydes, emoroides, emoraidez, ameraundys, emerawdys, emerawntys, emerodes
    • English: hemorrhoids, haemorrhoids, emerods
  • → Esperanto: hemoroido
  • → French: hémorroïde (learned)
  • → Galician: hemorroide (learned)
  • → German: Hämorrhoide
  • → Indonesian: hemoroid
  • → Italian: emorroide (learned)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: hemoroide
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: hemoroide
  • → Polish: hemoroid
  • → Portuguese: hemorroida
  • → Romanian: hemoroid (learned)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: hemoròīd
  • → Slovak: hemoroid
  • → Spanish: hemorroide (learned)
  • → Swedish: hemorrojd

Further reading

• αἱμορροΐς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αἱμορροΐς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “αἱμορροΐς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “αἱμορροΐς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press