ῥοία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ǒi̯.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈry.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈry.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈry.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.a/
Noun
ῥοίᾱ • (rhoíā) f (genitive ῥοίᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ῥοίᾱ hē rhoíā |
τὼ ῥοίᾱ tṑ rhoíā |
αἱ ῥοῖαι hai rhoîai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ῥοίᾱς tês rhoíās |
τοῖν ῥοίαιν toîn rhoíain |
τῶν ῥοιῶν tôn rhoiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ῥοίᾳ tēî rhoíāi |
τοῖν ῥοίαιν toîn rhoíain |
ταῖς ῥοίαις taîs rhoíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ῥοίᾱν tḕn rhoíān |
τὼ ῥοίᾱ tṑ rhoíā |
τᾱ̀ς ῥοίᾱς tā̀s rhoíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥοίᾱ rhoíā |
ῥοίᾱ rhoíā |
ῥοῖαι rhoîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: -rrhea
References
- “ῥοία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥοία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette