ῥινός

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥iː.nós/ → /riˈnos/ → /riˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥iː.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /riˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /riˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /riˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈnos/

Noun

ῥῑνός • (rhīnós) f

1. genitive singular of ῥῑ́ς (rhī́s)

Noun

ῥῑνός • (rhīnós) f (genitive ῥῑνοῦ); second declension

1. (sense: skin)
   1. skin of a man or a beast
   2. leather
2. (sense: hide)
   1. a hide of a beast
   2. shield

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ ῥῑνός; τῆς ῥῑνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῑνός hē rhīnós	τὼ ῥῑνώ tṑ rhīnṓ	αἱ ῥῑνοί hai rhīnoí
Genitive	τῆς ῥῑνοῦ tês rhīnoû	τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν toîn rhīnoîn	τῶν ῥῑνῶν tôn rhīnôn
Dative	τῇ ῥῑνῷ têi rhīnôi	τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν toîn rhīnoîn	ταῖς ῥῑνοῖς taîs rhīnoîs
Accusative	τὴν ῥῑνόν tḕn rhīnón	τὼ ῥῑνώ tṑ rhīnṓ	τᾱ̀ς ῥῑνούς tā̀s rhīnoús
Vocative	ῥῑνέ rhīné	ῥῑνώ rhīnṓ	ῥῑνοί rhīnoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Alternative forms

• ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, “hide, shield”)

Related terms

Not to be confused with similar words meaning nose from ῥῑ́ς (rhī́s)
or similar words meaning file, rasp from ἡ ῥίνη (rhínē)

• εὔρῑνος (eúrīnos, “of good leather”), ἐΰρρῑνος (eǘrrhīnos) (Epic)
• πολύρρῑνος (polúrrhīnos, “with many hides: of σάκος”)
• ῥῑνόβατος m (rhīnóbatos, “a rough-skinned fish”)
• ῥῑνοδέψης m (rhīnodépsēs, “leather-dresser”)
• ῥῑνοκόλλητος (rhīnokóllētos, “made of glued hides”)
• ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, “the hide”)
• ῥῑνοπῠ́λη f (rhīnopúlē, “side-gate, wicket”)
• ῥῑνοτόμος (rhīnotómos, “piercing shields”)
• ῥῑνοτόρος (rhīnotóros, “hide-piercing, shield-piercing”)

References

• “ῥινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥινός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ῥινός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hide idem, page 398.
  • skin idem, page 781.