ῥητινίτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῥητίνη (rhētínē, “pine resin”) + -ίτης (-ítēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɛː.tiː.nǐː.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /re̝.tiˈni.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ri.tiˈni.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ri.tiˈni.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ri.tiˈni.tis/
Noun
ῥητῑνῑ́της • (rhētīnī́tēs) m (genitive ῥητῑνῑ́του); first declension
- having the taste of resin
- ῥητινίτης οἶνος ― rhētinítēs oînos ― resinated wine, retsina
- c. 70 CE, Pedanius Dioscorides, “Book V”, in De materia medica, section 43:
- Ὁ δὲ ῥητινίτης οἶνος καὶ κατὰ τὰ ἔθνη σκευάζεται
- Ho dè rhētinítēs oînos kaì katà tà éthnē skeuázetai
- this resinated wine is produced by many nations
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ῥητῑνῑ́της ho rhētīnī́tēs |
τὼ ῥητῑνῑ́τᾱ tṑ rhētīnī́tā |
οἱ ῥητῑνῖται hoi rhētīnîtai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥητῑνῑ́του toû rhētīnī́tou |
τοῖν ῥητῑνῑ́ταιν toîn rhētīnī́tain |
τῶν ῥητῑνῑτῶν tôn rhētīnītôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥητῑνῑ́τῃ tōî rhētīnī́tēi |
τοῖν ῥητῑνῑ́ταιν toîn rhētīnī́tain |
τοῖς ῥητῑνῑ́ταις toîs rhētīnī́tais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ῥητῑνῑ́την tòn rhētīnī́tēn |
τὼ ῥητῑνῑ́τᾱ tṑ rhētīnī́tā |
τοὺς ῥητῑνῑ́τᾱς toùs rhētīnī́tās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥητῑνῖτᾰ rhētīnîtă |
ῥητῑνῑ́τᾱ rhētīnī́tā |
ῥητῑνῖται rhētīnîtai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- ῥητινίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ῥητινίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press