ῥινόκερως

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Armenian ռնգեղջիւր

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /riˈno.ce.ros/ → /riˈno.ce.ros/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /riˈno.ke.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /riˈno.ce.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /riˈno.ce.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈno.ce.ros/

Noun

ῥῑνόκερως • (rhīnókerōs) m (genitive ῥῑνοκέρωτος); third declension (Koine)

1. rhinoceros

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ῥῑνόκερως; τοῦ ῥῑνοκέρωτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥῑνόκερως ho rhīnókerōs	τὼ ῥῑνοκέρωτε tṑ rhīnokérōte	οἱ ῥῑνοκέρωτες hoi rhīnokérōtes
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῑνοκέρωτος toû rhīnokérōtos	τοῖν ῥῑνοκερώτοιν toîn rhīnokerṓtoin	τῶν ῥῑνοκερώτων tôn rhīnokerṓtōn
Dative	τῷ ῥῑνοκέρωτῐ tôi rhīnokérōti	τοῖν ῥῑνοκερώτοιν toîn rhīnokerṓtoin	τοῖς ῥῑνοκέρωσῐ / ῥῑνοκέρωσῐν toîs rhīnokérōsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ῥῑνοκέρωτᾰ tòn rhīnokérōta	τὼ ῥῑνοκέρωτε tṑ rhīnokérōte	τοὺς ῥῑνοκέρωτᾰς toùs rhīnokérōtas
Vocative	ῥῑνόκερως rhīnókerōs	ῥῑνοκέρωτε rhīnokérōte	ῥῑνοκέρωτες rhīnokérōtes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

References

• “ῥινόκερως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥινόκερως”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers