ῥοῖζος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, if related to ῥοῖβδος (rhoîbdos, “buzzing, hissing noise”), this word is certainly of Pre-Greek origin, but even if unrelated, such an origin may still be considered.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ôi̯z.dos/ → /ˈry.zos/ → /ˈri.zos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ôi̯z.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈry.zos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.zos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.zos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.zos/

Noun

ῥοῖζος • (rhoîzos) m (genitive ῥοίζου); second declension

1. whistling or whizzing of an arrow or of a scourge
2. any whistling or piping sound
3. rush of wings, of the sea or of a stream
4. hissing of a serpent
5. rushing motion, rush, swing

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥοῖζος; τοῦ ῥοίζου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥοῖζος ho rhoîzos	τὼ ῥοίζω tṑ rhoízō	οἱ ῥοῖζοι hoi rhoîzoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῥοίζου toû rhoízou	τοῖν ῥοίζοιν toîn rhoízoin	τῶν ῥοίζων tôn rhoízōn
Dative	τῷ ῥοίζῳ tôi rhoízōi	τοῖν ῥοίζοιν toîn rhoízoin	τοῖς ῥοίζοις toîs rhoízois
Accusative	τὸν ῥοῖζον tòn rhoîzon	τὼ ῥοίζω tṑ rhoízō	τοὺς ῥοίζους toùs rhoízous
Vocative	ῥοῖζε rhoîze	ῥοίζω rhoízō	ῥοῖζοι rhoîzoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἁλίρροιζος (halírrhoizos)
• ῥοιζαῖος (rhoizaîos)
• ῥοιζέω (rhoizéō)
• ῥοιζηδά (rhoizēdá)
• ῥοιζήεις (rhoizḗeis)
• ῥοίζημα (rhoízēma)
• ῥοίζησις (rhoízēsis)
• ῥοιζήτωρ (rhoizḗtōr)
• ῥοιζόω (rhoizóō)
• ῥοιζώδης (rhoizṓdēs)

 

Further reading

• “ῥοῖζος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥοῖζος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥοῖζος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥοῖζος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥοῖζος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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