ῥόμος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ῥόμοξ (rhómox)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis. Cognates include Latin vermis, Russian ве́рмие (vérmije), Albanian rrime, and Old English wyrm (English worm).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ó.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈro.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈro.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈro.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈro.mos/
Noun
ῥόμος • (rhómos) m (genitive ῥόμου); second declension
- (hapax legomenon) woodworm
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ῥόμος ho rhómos |
τὼ ῥόμω tṑ rhómō |
οἱ ῥόμοι hoi rhómoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥόμου toû rhómou |
τοῖν ῥόμοιν toîn rhómoin |
τῶν ῥόμων tôn rhómōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥόμῳ tōî rhómōi |
τοῖν ῥόμοιν toîn rhómoin |
τοῖς ῥόμοις toîs rhómois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ῥόμον tòn rhómon |
τὼ ῥόμω tṑ rhómō |
τοὺς ῥόμους toùs rhómous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥόμε rhóme |
ῥόμω rhómō |
ῥόμοι rhómoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ῥόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN