ῥάμφος
See also: ράμφος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editNext to this word, there are ῥέμφος (rhémphos, “mouth or nose”) and ῥαμψός (rhampsós). The words ῥέμβομαι (rhémbomai, “to turn round, roam”) and ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “wheel”) are phonetically comparable and semantically similar; confront further ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod, wand”) and ῥομφαία (rhomphaía, “Thracian sword”). Germanic words have been compared, like Middle Low German wrimpen (“to turn up one's nose”), but these comparisons are ungrounded. The variation β/ψ rather points to a Pre-Greek origin, as does the α-vocalism. Moreover, ῥαιβός (rhaibós, “crooked”) is probably a variant, showing prenasalization.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ám.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈram.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈram.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈram.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈram.fos/
Noun
editῥᾰ́μφος • (rhámphos) n (genitive ῥᾰ́μφεος); third declension
- crooked beak of birds of prey, bill
- Synonym: ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos)
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ῥᾰ́μφος tò rhámphos |
τὼ ῥᾰ́μφεε tṑ rhámphee |
τᾰ̀ ῥᾰ́μφεᾰ tà rhámphea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῥᾰ́μφεος toû rhámpheos |
τοῖν ῥᾰμφέοιν toîn rhamphéoin |
τῶν ῥᾰμφέων tôn rhamphéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῥᾰ́μφεῐ̈ tôi rhámpheï |
τοῖν ῥᾰμφέοιν toîn rhamphéoin |
τοῖς ῥᾰ́μφεσῐ / ῥᾰ́μφεσῐν toîs rhámphesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ῥᾰ́μφος tò rhámphos |
τὼ ῥᾰ́μφεε tṑ rhámphee |
τᾰ̀ ῥᾰ́μφεᾰ tà rhámphea | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥᾰ́μφος rhámphos |
ῥᾰ́μφεε rhámphee |
ῥᾰ́μφεᾰ rhámphea | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- λεπτόραμφος (leptóramphos)
- ῥαμφάζομαι (rhampházomai)
- ῥαμφή (rhamphḗ)
- ῥαμφηστής (rhamphēstḗs)
- ῥάμφιον (rhámphion)
- ῥάμφιος (rhámphios)
- ῥαμφίς (rhamphís)
- ῥαμφώδης (rhamphṓdēs)
Descendants
edit- Greek: ράμφος (rámfos)
Further reading
edit- “ῥάμφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥάμφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥάμφος 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
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