ῥίς

See also: ρις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥῑ́ν (rhī́n) — Later poetic

Etymology

Probably a borrowing.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ǐːs/ → /ris/ → /ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ǐːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ris/

Noun

ῥῑ́ς • (rhī́s) f (genitive ῥῑνός); third declension

1. nose, snout
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.291
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.445
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.154
   • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 21
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 329d
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Hermotimus 68
     • 73
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 6.37
   1. (in the plural) nostrils
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.503
        • 14.467
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.456
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 267
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 918
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 344
      • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 79e
2. (probably) brow of a hill, projecting spur of land
   • 1 CE – 100 CE, Aretaeus, De Curatione Acutorum Morborum 1.2
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Ass 12
   • 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Fasc. 11

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ῥῑ́ς; τῆς ῥῑνός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῑ́ς hē rhī́s	τὼ ῥῖνε tṑ rhîne	αἱ ῥῖνες hai rhînes
Genitive	τῆς ῥῑνός tês rhīnós	τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν toîn rhīnoîn	τῶν ῥῑνῶν tôn rhīnôn
Dative	τῇ ῥῑνῐ́ têi rhīní	τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν toîn rhīnoîn	ταῖς ῥῑσῐ́ / ῥῑσῐ́ν taîs rhīsí(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥῖνᾰ tḕn rhîna	τὼ ῥῖνε tṑ rhîne	τᾱ̀ς ῥῖνᾰς tā̀s rhînas
Vocative	ῥῑ́ς rhī́s	ῥῖνε rhîne	ῥῖνες rhînes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

Not to be confused with similar words meaning skin, leather; hide, shield from ἡ ῥῑνός (rhīnós)
or similar words meaning file, rasp from ἡ ῥίνη (rhínē)

Related terms

• ᾰ̓νᾰ́ρρῑνον n (anárrhīnon, “plant nose-smart, watercress, κάρδαμον; sternutative”)
• ἀντῐ́ρρῑνον n (antírrhīnon, “palnt calf's snout, plant Antirrhinum Orontium”)
• ἄρρῑνον n (árrhīnon)
• ἐπίρρινος (epírrhinos, “with a long nose”)
• ἔρρινον (érrhinon, “sternutatory medicine causing sneezing”)
• εὐθύρινος (euthúrinos, “straight-nosed”)
• εὐθύρρῑν (euthúrrhīn, “straight-nosed”)
• εὔθυρρις (eúthurrhis, “straight-nosed”)
• εὔρῑνος (eúrīnos, “with a good nose”)
• εὔρῑς m or f (eúrīs, “with a good nose”)
• κολοβόρινος (kolobórinos, “with broken nose”)
• μεγαλόρινος (megalórinos, “with large nose”)
• ῥῑναυλέω (rhīnauléō, “snort, blow from nouse from anger”)
• ῥινάω (rhináō, “lead by the nose; file”)
• ῥῑνεγκᾰτᾰπηξῐγένειος (rhīnenkatapēxigéneios, “with a nose near the chin”)
• ῥῑνεγχυσία f (rhīnenkhusía, “injection at the nose”)
• ῥῑνεγχῠτέω (rhīnenkhutéō, “inject at the nose”)
• ῥῑνόω (rhīnóō, “inject at the nose”)
• ῥῑνεγχῠ́της m (rhīnenkhútēs, “instrument for passing such iniections”)
• ῥῑνέγχῠτον n (rhīnénkhuton, “injection for the nose”)
• ῥῑνέγχῠτος (rhīnénkhutos, “injected at the nose”)
• ῥῑνηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ f (rhīnēlasíā, “tracking by the nose”)
• ῥῑνηλᾰτέω (rhīnēlatéō, “track by scent”)
• ῥῑνηλᾰ́της m (rhīnēlátēs, “who tracks by scent”)
• ῥῑνήλᾰτος (rhīnḗlatos, “tracked by the scent”)
• ῥῑνίον n (rhīníon, “diminutive of file (ῥίνη), or nose (ῥίς)”)
• ῥινοβόλος (rhinobólos, “striking the nose, emitted through the nose”)
• ῥινόκερως m (rhinókerōs, “rhinoceros”)
• ῥινοκολοῦρος (rhinokoloûros, “with mutilated nose”)
• ῥινοκολούστης m (rhinokoloústēs, “nose-clipper, of Heracles”)
• ῥινοκοπέω (rhinokopéō, “cut off the nose”)
• ῥινολαβίς (rhinolabís, “tongs to hold the nose”)
• ῥινόσιμος (rhinósimos, “snub-nosed”)
• ῥῑνοσπᾰ́θιον n (rhīnospáthion, “a surgical instrument”)
• ῥῑνοτορίνιον n (rhīnotorínion, “a surgical instrument”)
• ῥῑνουλκέω (rhīnoulkéō, “inhale”)
• τανύρρινος (tanúrrhinos, “long-nosed”)
• τετράρρῑνος (tetrárrhīnos, “with four nozzles”)
• ὑπόρρῑνος (hupórrhīnos, “under the nose”)
• ὑπόρρινα n pl (hupórrhina, “moustaches”) (or perhaps of ὑπόρρις m (hupórrhis))

Descendants

• → English: rhino-
• Greek: ρίνα (rína), Greek: ρινο- (rino-)

See also

• ῥῑνη f (rhīnē, “rasp”) or ῥίν (rhín, “sense: rasp”)
• ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, “hide; shield”) το ῥῑνόν, του ῥῑνοῦ
• ῥῑνός f (rhīnós, “skin of a man; hide of a beast”) ἡ ῥῑνός, τῆς ῥῑνοῦ (occasionally masculine)

Further reading

• “ῥίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • nose idem, page 562.
  • nostril idem, page 562.