Ῥαμνοῦς

See also: ῥάμνους

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥάμνος (rhámnos, “briar, rhamnus”) +‎ -οῦς (-oûs, “-ful”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥am.nûːs/ → /ramˈnus/ → /ramˈnus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥am.nûːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ramˈnus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ramˈnus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ramˈnus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ramˈnus/

Proper noun

Ῥᾰμνοῦς • (Rhămnoûs) m (genitive Ῥᾰμνοῦντος); third declension

1. Rhamnus, Attica, Greece
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 1.33.2

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ῥᾰμνοῦς; τοῦ Ῥᾰμνοῦντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῥᾰμνοῦς ho Rhămnoûs
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥᾰμνοῦντος toû Rhămnoûntos
Dative	τῷ Ῥᾰμνοῦντῐ tōî Rhămnoûntĭ
Accusative	τὸν Ῥᾰμνοῦντᾰ tòn Rhămnoûntă
Vocative	Ῥᾰμνοῦν Rhămnoûn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ῥαμνούσιος (Rhamnoúsios)

Descendants

• Greek: Ραμνούς (Ramnoús); Ραμνούντας (Ramnoúntas)
• Latin: Rhamnus

References

• “Ῥαμνοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024