ῥόα
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
The word can be compared with χροιά (khroiá, “skin”). It is perhaps related to ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”), because of the richness of the juice. However, a Pre-Greek origin remains a serious option for this word.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ó.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈro.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈro.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈro.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈro.a/
Noun edit
ῥόα • (rhóa) f (genitive ῥόᾱς); first declension
- pomegranate tree (Punica granatum)
- Synonym: σίδη (sídē)
- the fruit, pomegranate
- knob shaped like a pomegranate
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥόᾰ hē rhóa |
τὼ ῥόᾱ tṑ rhóā |
αἱ ῥόαι hai rhóai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥόᾱς tês rhóās |
τοῖν ῥόαιν toîn rhóain |
τῶν ῥοῶν tôn rhoôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥόᾳ têi rhóāi |
τοῖν ῥόαιν toîn rhóain |
ταῖς ῥόαις taîs rhóais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥόᾰν tḕn rhóan |
τὼ ῥόᾱ tṑ rhóā |
τᾱ̀ς ῥόᾱς tā̀s rhóās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥόᾰ rhóa |
ῥόᾱ rhóā |
ῥόαι rhóai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
References edit
- “ῥόα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥόα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- 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
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- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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