ῥῆον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥᾶ (rhâ)

Etymology

The word would come from the river called Ῥᾶ (Rhâ, “Volga”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.on/ → /ˈri.on/ → /ˈri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈre̝.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.on/

Noun

ῥῆον • (rhêon) n (genitive ῥήου); second declension

1. rhubarb (probably )

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῥῆον; τοῦ ῥήου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥῆον tò rhêon	τὼ ῥήω tṑ rhḗō	τᾰ̀ ῥῆᾰ tà rhêa
Genitive	τοῦ ῥήου toû rhḗou	τοῖν ῥήοιν toîn rhḗoin	τῶν ῥήων tôn rhḗōn
Dative	τῷ ῥήῳ tôi rhḗōi	τοῖν ῥήοιν toîn rhḗoin	τοῖς ῥήοις toîs rhḗois
Accusative	τὸ ῥῆον tò rhêon	τὼ ῥήω tṑ rhḗō	τᾰ̀ ῥῆᾰ tà rhêa
Vocative	ῥῆον rhêon	ῥήω rhḗō	ῥῆᾰ rhêa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: rhēum
• → Translingual: Rheum

Further reading

• “ῥῆον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥῆον 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