αἱμορροΐς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From αἱμο- (haimo-, “blood”) + ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”) + -ίς (-ís). Also serves as the feminine of αἱμόρροος (haimórrhoos, “flowing with blood”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hai̯.mor̥.r̥o.ís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)ɛ.mor.roˈis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɛ.mor.roˈis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.mor.roˈis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.mo.roˈis/
Noun
αἱμορροΐς • (haimorrhoḯs) f (genitive αἱμορροΐδος); third declension
- (chiefly in the plural) veins liable to discharge blood, especially haemorrhoids, piles
- a kind of shellfish, perhaps Aporrhais pespelecani
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ αἱμορροΐς hē haimorrhoḯs |
τὼ αἱμορροῐ̈́δε tṑ haimorrhoĭ̈́de |
αἱ αἱμορροῐ̈́δες hai haimorrhoĭ̈́des | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς αἱμορροῐ̈́δος tês haimorrhoĭ̈́dos |
τοῖν αἱμορροῐ̈́δοιν toîn haimorrhoĭ̈́doin |
τῶν αἱμορροῐ̈́δων tôn haimorrhoĭ̈́dōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ αἱμορροῐ̈́δῐ tēî haimorrhoĭ̈́dĭ |
τοῖν αἱμορροῐ̈́δοιν toîn haimorrhoĭ̈́doin |
ταῖς αἱμορροῐ̈́σῐ / αἱμορροῐ̈́σῐν taîs haimorrhoĭ̈́sĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν αἱμορροῐ̈́δᾰ tḕn haimorrhoĭ̈́dă |
τὼ αἱμορροῐ̈́δε tṑ haimorrhoĭ̈́de |
τᾱ̀ς αἱμορροῐ̈́δᾰς tā̀s haimorrhoĭ̈́dăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | αἱμορροΐς haimorrhoḯs |
αἱμορροῐ̈́δε haimorrhoĭ̈́de |
αἱμορροῐ̈́δες haimorrhoĭ̈́des | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- Greek: αιμορροΐδα (aimorroḯda)
- → Belarusian: гемаро́й (hjemarój)
- → Bulgarian: хеморои́д (hemoroíd)
- → Macedonian: хемороид (hemoroid)
- → Russian: геморро́й (gemorrój)
- → Turkish: hemoroit
- → Ukrainian: геморо́й (hemorój)
- → Volapük: hemoroid
- → Latin: haemorrhoidae
- → Catalan: hemorroide (learned)
- → Czech: hemoroid
- → Danish: hæmoride, hæmorroide
- → Middle English: emeroides, emerowdes, emeroydez, emoroydes, emoroides, emoraidez, ameraundys, emerawdys, emerawntys, emerodes
- English: hemorrhoids, haemorrhoids, emerods
- → Esperanto: hemoroido
- → French: hémorroïde (learned)
- → Galician: hemorroide (learned)
- → German: Hämorrhoide
- → Indonesian: hemoroid
- → Italian: emorroide (learned)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: hemoroide
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: hemoroide
- → Polish: hemoroid
- → Portuguese: hemorroida
- → Romanian: hemoroid (learned)
- → Serbo-Croatian: hemoròīd
- → Slovak: hemoroid
- → Spanish: hemorroide (learned)
- → Swedish: hemorrojd
Further reading
- αἱμορροΐς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αἱμορροΐς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- αἱμορροΐς, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “αἱμορροΐς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press