Ῥώμη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɔ̌ː.mɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈro.me̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈro.mi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈro.mi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈro.mi/
Proper noun
Ῥώμη • (Rhṓmē) f (genitive Ῥώμης); first declension
- Rome (a major city in Italy)
- Rome, Ancient Rome (an ancient empire based out of the city of Rome, covering vast territories in Europe, Asia and Africa; in full, Roman Empire)
Inflection
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Greek: Ρώμη (Rómi)
- → Arabic: رُومِية (rūmiya)
- → Aramaic: רומא
- Classical Syriac: ܪܘܡܐ (Rōmāʾ, Rōmēʾ)
- → Old Armenian: Հռովմ (Hṙovm), Հռոմ (Hṙom)
- Armenian: Հռոմ (Hṙom)
- → Egyptian:
(hrm) - → Parthian: (/Frōm/)
- Inscriptional Parthian script: 𐭐𐭓𐭅𐭌 (prwm)
- Manichaean script: 𐫜𐫡𐫇𐫖 (frwm)
- → Middle Persian: (/Hrōm/, “Rome; Byzantine”)
References
- “Ῥώμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4516 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- rome idem, page 721.