ῥῶσταξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῥώννῡμι (rhṓnnūmi, “to have strength or might”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɔ̂ːs.taks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈros.taks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈros.taks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈros.taks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈros.taks/
Noun
ῥῶστᾰξ • (rhôstăx) m (genitive ῥώστᾰκος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ῥῶστᾰξ ho rhôstăx |
τὼ ῥώστᾰκε tṑ rhṓstăke |
οἱ ῥώστᾰκες hoi rhṓstăkes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥώστᾰκος toû rhṓstăkos |
τοῖν ῥωστᾰ́κοιν toîn rhōstắkoin |
τῶν ῥωστᾰ́κων tôn rhōstắkōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥώστᾰκῐ tōî rhṓstăkĭ |
τοῖν ῥωστᾰ́κοιν toîn rhōstắkoin |
τοῖς ῥώστᾰξῐ / ῥώστᾰξῐν toîs rhṓstăxĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ῥώστᾰκᾰ tòn rhṓstăkă |
τὼ ῥώστᾰκε tṑ rhṓstăke |
τοὺς ῥώστᾰκᾰς toùs rhṓstăkăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥῶστᾰξ rhôstăx |
ῥώστᾰκε rhṓstăke |
ῥώστᾰκες rhṓstăkes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ῥῶσταξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥῶσταξ 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