ῥομφαία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps of Thracian origin. However the ending in "-αία" is found in many Greek terms and the word has been linked with ῥομφεῖς (rhompheîs, “straps by which shoes are stitched”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥om.pʰǎi̯.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /romˈpʰɛ.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /romˈɸɛ.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /romˈfe.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /romˈfe.a/
Noun
ῥομφαίᾱ • (rhomphaíā) f (genitive ῥομφαίᾱς); first declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥομφαίᾱ hē rhomphaíā |
τὼ ῥομφαίᾱ tṑ rhomphaíā |
αἱ ῥομφαῖαι hai rhomphaîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥομφαίᾱς tês rhomphaíās |
τοῖν ῥομφαίαιν toîn rhomphaíain |
τῶν ῥομφαιῶν tôn rhomphaiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥομφαίᾳ têi rhomphaíāi |
τοῖν ῥομφαίαιν toîn rhomphaíain |
ταῖς ῥομφαίαις taîs rhomphaíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥομφαίᾱν tḕn rhomphaíān |
τὼ ῥομφαίᾱ tṑ rhomphaíā |
τᾱ̀ς ῥομφαίᾱς tā̀s rhomphaíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥομφαίᾱ rhomphaíā |
ῥομφαίᾱ rhomphaíā |
ῥομφαῖαι rhomphaîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: rhomphaea
References
- “ῥομφαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥομφαία 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.
- 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
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