ῥεῦμα

See also: ρεύμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ser-?

Proto-Indo-European *srew-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *sréwmn̥?

Proto-Hellenic *hréumə

Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα

From Proto-Hellenic *hréumə, likely inherited from Proto-Indo-European *sréwmn̥, from *srew- (“to flow”) +‎ *-mn̥; equivalent to ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”) +‎ -μα (-ma). Compare the related Proto-Indo-European *srówmos, whence also Old English stream. See also ῥυθμός (rhuthmós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥êu̯.ma/ → /ˈreβ.ma/ → /ˈrev.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥êu̯.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈrew.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈreβ.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈrev.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈrev.ma/

Noun

ῥεῦμᾰ • (rheûmă) n (genitive ῥεύμᾰτος); third declension

1. stream, flow, current
2. liquid discharge (from the body), rheum

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ῥεῦμᾰ; τοῦ ῥεύμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥεῦμᾰ tò rheûmă	τὼ ῥεύμᾰτε tṑ rheúmăte	τᾰ̀ ῥεύμᾰτᾰ tằ rheúmătă
Genitive	τοῦ ῥεύμᾰτος toû rheúmătos	τοῖν ῥευμᾰ́τοιν toîn rheumắtoin	τῶν ῥευμᾰ́των tôn rheumắtōn
Dative	τῷ ῥεύμᾰτῐ tōî rheúmătĭ	τοῖν ῥευμᾰ́τοιν toîn rheumắtoin	τοῖς ῥεύμᾰσῐ / ῥεύμᾰσῐν toîs rheúmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῥεῦμᾰ tò rheûmă	τὼ ῥεύμᾰτε tṑ rheúmăte	τᾰ̀ ῥεύμᾰτᾰ tằ rheúmătă
Vocative	ῥεῦμᾰ rheûmă	ῥεύμᾰτε rheúmăte	ῥεύμᾰτᾰ rheúmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῥευμᾰτῐκός (rheumătĭkós)
• ῥευμᾰτῐσμός (rheumătĭsmós)

Descendants

• Greek: ρέμα (réma) , ρεύμα (révma)
• → Latin: rheuma (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ῥεῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥεῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥεῦμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beck idem, page 68.
  • brook idem, page 101.
  • channel idem, page 124.
  • current idem, page 190.
  • flood idem, page 329.
  • flow idem, page 329.
  • jet idem, page 463.
  • rill idem, page 715.
  • river idem, page 718.
  • stream idem, page 824.
  • tide idem, page 873.
• ῥεῦμα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011