ῥυσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥυσσός (rhussós)

Etymology

The word can be compared with λοξός (loxós), κομψός (kompsós) and γαυσός (gausós). Solmsen's comparison with ἐρύω (erúō, “to draw, to pull”) is formally possible, but this doesn't furnish an Indo-European etymology. The similarity with Latin rūga (“wrinkle”) and Lithuanian raūkas (“wrinkle”) is accidental.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥yː.sós/ → /ryˈsos/ → /riˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥yː.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ryˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ryˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ryˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈsos/

Adjective

ῥῡσός • (rhūsós) m (feminine ῥῡσή, neuter ῥῡσόν); first/second declension

1. shrivelled, wrinkled

   Synonym: ἰσχνός (iskhnós)

Inflection

First and second declension of ῥῡσός; ῥῡσή; ῥῡσόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ῥῡσός rhūsós	ῥῡσή rhūsḗ	ῥῡσόν rhūsón		ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ	ῥῡσᾱ́ rhūsā́	ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ		ῥῡσοί rhūsoí	ῥῡσαί rhūsaí	ῥῡσᾰ́ rhūsá
Genitive		ῥῡσοῦ rhūsoû	ῥῡσῆς rhūsês	ῥῡσοῦ rhūsoû		ῥῡσοῖν rhūsoîn	ῥῡσαῖν rhūsaîn	ῥῡσοῖν rhūsoîn		ῥῡσῶν rhūsôn	ῥῡσῶν rhūsôn	ῥῡσῶν rhūsôn
Dative		ῥῡσῷ rhūsôi	ῥῡσῇ rhūsêi	ῥῡσῷ rhūsôi		ῥῡσοῖν rhūsoîn	ῥῡσαῖν rhūsaîn	ῥῡσοῖν rhūsoîn		ῥῡσοῖς rhūsoîs	ῥῡσαῖς rhūsaîs	ῥῡσοῖς rhūsoîs
Accusative		ῥῡσόν rhūsón	ῥῡσήν rhūsḗn	ῥῡσόν rhūsón		ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ	ῥῡσᾱ́ rhūsā́	ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ		ῥῡσούς rhūsoús	ῥῡσᾱ́ς rhūsā́s	ῥῡσᾰ́ rhūsá
Vocative		ῥῡσέ rhūsé	ῥῡσή rhūsḗ	ῥῡσόν rhūsón		ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ	ῥῡσᾱ́ rhūsā́	ῥῡσώ rhūsṓ		ῥῡσοί rhūsoí	ῥῡσαί rhūsaí	ῥῡσᾰ́ rhūsá
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ῥῡσῶς rhūsôs				ῥῡσότερος rhūsóteros				ῥῡσότᾰτος rhūsótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἔνρυσος (énrusos)
• ῥυσαίνομαι (rhusaínomai)
• ῥυσαλέος (rhusaléos)
• ῥυσάω (rhusáō)
• ῥυσή (rhusḗ)
• ῥύσημα (rhúsēma)
• ῥυσόκαρφος (rhusókarphos)
• ῥυσότης (rhusótēs)
• ῥυσοχίτων (rhusokhítōn)
• ῥυσόω (rhusóō)

 

References

• “ῥυσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥυσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥυσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ῥυσός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• 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