ῥομβοειδής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥόμβος (rhómbos) +‎ -ειδής (-eidḗs).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥om.bo.eː.dɛ̌ːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /rom.bo.iˈde̝s/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /rom.bo.iˈðis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /rom.bo.iˈðis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /rom.bo.iˈðis/

Adjective

ῥομβοειδής • (rhomboeidḗs) m or f (neuter ῥομβοειδές); third declension

rhombus-shaped, rhomboidal
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Joints 35
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 2.1.22
- 350 BCE – 250 BCE, Euclid, Elements 1.22
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Belopoeica 52.30
- 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Alm. 7.5
- Hegesand. 37
- 490 CE – 560 CE, Simplicius, On Aristotle's On the Heavens 410.5
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Theseus 27

Declension

Third declension of ῥομβοειδής; ῥομβοειδές (contracted, Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ῥομβοειδής rhomboeidḗs	ῥομβοειδές rhomboeidés	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖς rhomboeideîs	ῥομβοειδῆ rhomboeidê
Genitive	ῥομβοειδοῦς rhomboeidoûs	ῥομβοειδοῦς rhomboeidoûs	ῥομβοειδοῖν rhomboeidoîn	ῥομβοειδοῖν rhomboeidoîn	ῥομβοειδῶν rhomboeidôn	ῥομβοειδῶν rhomboeidôn
Dative	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδοῖν rhomboeidoîn	ῥομβοειδοῖν rhomboeidoîn	ῥομβοειδέσῐ / ῥομβοειδέσῐν rhomboeidésĭ(n)	ῥομβοειδέσῐ / ῥομβοειδέσῐν rhomboeidésĭ(n)
Accusative	ῥομβοειδῆ rhomboeidê	ῥομβοειδές rhomboeidés	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖς rhomboeideîs	ῥομβοειδῆ rhomboeidê
Vocative	ῥομβοειδές rhomboeidés	ῥομβοειδές rhomboeidés	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖς rhomboeideîs	ῥομβοειδῆ rhomboeidê
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	ῥομβοειδῶς rhomboeidôs		ῥομβοειδέστερος rhomboeidésteros		ῥομβοειδέστᾰτος rhomboeidéstătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Latin: rhomboīdēs

References

“ῥομβοειδής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ῥομβοειδής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ῥομβοειδής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette