ῥῖγος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sriHgos and cognate with Latin frīgus (“cold, frost”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥îː.ɡos/ → /ˈri.ɣos/ → /ˈri.ɣos/

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

Noun

ῥῖγος • (rhîgos) n (genitive ῥῑ́γεος); third declension

1. frost, cold, chilliness
2. shivering fit, as in ague

Inflection

Third declension of ῥῖγος; ῥῑ́γεος (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ῥῖγος rhîgos	ῥῑ́γει / ῥῑ́γεε rhī́gei / rhī́gee	ῥῑ́γεᾰ rhī́gea
Genitive	ῥῑ́γεος / ῥῑ́γευς rhī́geos / rhī́geus	ῥῑγέοιν rhīgéoin	ῥῑγέων rhīgéōn
Dative	ῥῑ́γει / ῥῑ́γεῐ̈ rhī́gei / rhī́geï	ῥῑγέοιν rhīgéoin	ῥῑ́γεσῐ / ῥῑ́γεσῐν rhī́gesi(n)
Accusative	ῥῖγος rhîgos	ῥῑ́γει / ῥῑ́γεε rhī́gei / rhī́gee	ῥῑ́γεᾰ rhī́gea
Vocative	ῥῖγος rhîgos	ῥῑ́γει / ῥῑ́γεε rhī́gei / rhī́gee	ῥῑ́γεᾰ rhī́gea
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

• ἀρριγής (arrhigḗs)
• ἄρριγος (árrhigos)
• δύσριγος (dúsrigos)
• ῥιγαλέος (rhigaléos)
• ῥιγεδανός (rhigedanós)
• ῥιγεσίβιος (rhigesíbios)
• ῥιγέω (rhigéō)
• ῥιγηλός (rhigēlós)
• ῥίγιον (rhígion)
• ῥίγιστος (rhígistos)
• ῥιγόλυτον (rhigóluton)
• ῥιγομάχης (rhigomákhēs)
• ῥιγοπύρετος (rhigopúretos)
• ῥιγόω (rhigóō)
• ῥιγώδης (rhigṓdēs)
• ῥίγωσις (rhígōsis)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ρίγος (rígos)

References

• “ῥῖγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥῖγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥῖγος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥῖγος 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