ῥόχθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Sound word without etymology. Note the formal similarity with ῥόθος (rhóthos, “rushing noise”), ῥοῖβδος (rhoîbdos, “rushing noise”) and ῥοῖζος (rhoîzos, “whistling sound”). The medial -χθ- may be compared with μόχθος (mókhthos, “toil, trouble”), βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”) and ὀχθέω (okhthéō, “to be troubled, angered”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ókʰ.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈrokʰ.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈrox.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈrox.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈrox.θos/
Noun
ῥόχθος • (rhókhthos) m (genitive ῥόχθου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ῥόχθος ho rhókhthos |
τὼ ῥόχθω tṑ rhókhthō |
οἱ ῥόχθοι hoi rhókhthoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥόχθου toû rhókhthou |
τοῖν ῥόχθοιν toîn rhókhthoin |
τῶν ῥόχθων tôn rhókhthōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥόχθῳ tōî rhókhthōi |
τοῖν ῥόχθοιν toîn rhókhthoin |
τοῖς ῥόχθοις toîs rhókhthois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ῥόχθον tòn rhókhthon |
τὼ ῥόχθω tṑ rhókhthō |
τοὺς ῥόχθους toùs rhókhthous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥόχθε rhókhthe |
ῥόχθω rhókhthō |
ῥόχθοι rhókhthoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πᾰλῐ́ρροχθος (pălĭ́rrhokhthos)
- ῥοχθέω (rhokhthéō)
Further reading
- “ῥόχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥόχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥόχθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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