ῥικνός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥i.knós/ → /riˈknos/ → /riˈknos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥i.knós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /riˈknos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /riˈknos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /riˈknos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈknos/

Adjective

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

1. shrivelled by cold, by age or by disease
2. shrunk, contracted
3. withered, crooked

Inflection

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
		ῥικνῶς rhiknôs				ῥικνότερος rhiknóteros				ῥικνότᾰτος rhiknótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῥικνώδής (rhiknṓdḗs)
• ῥικνότης (rhiknótēs)
• ῥικνήεις (rhiknḗeis)

References

• “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