ῥωχμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wreh₁ǵ-, the same root of ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi, “to break, shatter”) and ῥώξ (rhṓx, “breach”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɔːkʰ.mós/ → /roxˈmos/ → /roxˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɔːkʰ.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /rokʰˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /roxˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /roxˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /roxˈmos/

Noun

ῥωχμός • (rhōkhmós) m (genitive ῥωχμοῦ); second declension

1. cleft, fissure, crack
2. runnel or gutter scooped out by heavy rains

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥωχμός; τοῦ ῥωχμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥωχμός ho rhōkhmós	τὼ ῥωχμώ tṑ rhōkhmṓ	οἱ ῥωχμοί hoi rhōkhmoí
Genitive	τοῦ ῥωχμοῦ toû rhōkhmoû	τοῖν ῥωχμοῖν toîn rhōkhmoîn	τῶν ῥωχμῶν tôn rhōkhmôn
Dative	τῷ ῥωχμῷ tôi rhōkhmôi	τοῖν ῥωχμοῖν toîn rhōkhmoîn	τοῖς ῥωχμοῖς toîs rhōkhmoîs
Accusative	τὸν ῥωχμόν tòn rhōkhmón	τὼ ῥωχμώ tṑ rhōkhmṓ	τοὺς ῥωχμούς toùs rhōkhmoús
Vocative	ῥωχμέ rhōkhmé	ῥωχμώ rhōkhmṓ	ῥωχμοί rhōkhmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ῥωχμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥωχμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥωχμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥωχμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥωχμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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