ῥάμνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word may belong with ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod, wand”) and cognates. According to Beekes, it is quite probable a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ám.nos/ → /ˈram.nos/ → /ˈram.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ám.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈram.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈram.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈram.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈram.nos/

Noun

ῥᾰ́μνος • (rhámnos) f (genitive ῥᾰ́μνου); second declension

1. a thorny bush or shrub
2. (botany) boxthorn (Lycium europaeum)
3. (botany) stone buckthorn (Rhamnus graeca, now Rhamnus lycioides subsp. graeca)
4. (botany) black buckthorn (Rhamnus oleoides, now Rhamnus lycioides subsp. oleoides)

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ ῥᾰ́μνος; τῆς ῥᾰ́μνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥᾰ́μνος hē rhámnos	τὼ ῥᾰ́μνω tṑ rhámnō	αἱ ῥᾰ́μνοι hai rhámnoi
Genitive	τῆς ῥᾰ́μνου tês rhámnou	τοῖν ῥᾰ́μνοιν toîn rhámnoin	τῶν ῥᾰ́μνων tôn rhámnōn
Dative	τῇ ῥᾰ́μνῳ têi rhámnōi	τοῖν ῥᾰ́μνοιν toîn rhámnoin	ταῖς ῥᾰ́μνοις taîs rhámnois
Accusative	τὴν ῥᾰ́μνον tḕn rhámnon	τὼ ῥᾰ́μνω tṑ rhámnō	τᾱ̀ς ῥᾰ́μνους tā̀s rhámnous
Vocative	ῥᾰ́μνε rhámne	ῥᾰ́μνω rhámnō	ῥᾰ́μνοι rhámnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ῥαμνοῦς (Rhamnoûs)

Further reading

• “ῥάμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥάμνος 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