ῥίζις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥íz.dis/ → /ˈri.zis/ → /ˈri.zis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥íz.dis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈri.zis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.zis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.zis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.zis/

Noun

ῥίζῐς • (rhízis) m (genitive ῥίζῐος); third declension

1. Ethiopian animal resembling an elephant

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ῥῐ́ζῐς; τοῦ ῥῐ́ζῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥῐ́ζῐς ho rhízis	τὼ ῥῐ́ζῐε tṑ rhízie	οἱ ῥῐ́ζῐες hoi rhízies
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῐ́ζῐος toû rhízios	τοῖν ῥῐζῐ́οιν toîn rhizíoin	τῶν ῥῐζῐ́ων tôn rhizíōn
Dative	τῷ ῥῐ́ζῑ tôi rhízī	τοῖν ῥῐζῐ́οιν toîn rhizíoin	τοῖς ῥῐ́ζῐσῐ / ῥῐ́ζῐσῐν toîs rhízisi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ῥῐ́ζῐν tòn rhízin	τὼ ῥῐ́ζῐε tṑ rhízie	τοὺς ῥῐ́ζῑς / ῥῐ́ζῐᾰς toùs rhízīs / rhízias
Vocative	ῥῐ́ζῐ rhízi	ῥῐ́ζῐε rhízie	ῥῐ́ζῐες rhízies
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ῥίζις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥίζις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette