ῥεῖθρον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Contracted from ῥέεθρον (rhéethron), from *ῥέϝεθρον (*rhéwethron), from the stem of ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥êː.tʰron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈri.tʰron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈri.θron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈri.θron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.θron/
Noun
ῥεῖθρον • (rheîthron) n (genitive ῥείθρου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ῥεῖθρον tò rheîthron |
τᾰ̀ ῥεῖθρᾰ tằ rheîthră | |||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥείθρου toû rheíthrou |
τῶν ῥείθρων tôn rheíthrōn | |||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥείθρῳ tōî rheíthrōi |
τοῖς ῥείθροις toîs rheíthrois | |||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ῥεῖθρον tò rheîthron |
τᾰ̀ ῥεῖθρᾰ tằ rheîthră | |||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥεῖθρον rheîthron |
ῥεῖθρᾰ rheîthră | |||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ῥεῖθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press