ῥίψ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥῖπος (rhîpos)

Etymology

No agreement outside Greek. It was connected with ῥίπτω (rhíptō, “to throw, hurl”) long ago, assuming a basic meaning "turn, wind" for both. However, this connection fails due to the weak semantics.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ǐːps/ → /rips/ → /rips/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ǐːps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /rips/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /rips/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /rips/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /rips/

Noun

ῥίψ • (rhíps) f (genitive ῥῑπός); third declension

1. mat, wickerwork, wattle, plaited work of osiers or rushes

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῥῑ́ψ; τῆς ῥῑπός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῑ́ψ hē rhī́ps	τὼ ῥῖπε tṑ rhîpe	αἱ ῥῖπες hai rhîpes
Genitive	τῆς ῥῑπός tês rhīpós	τοῖν ῥῑποῖν toîn rhīpoîn	τῶν ῥῑπῶν tôn rhīpôn
Dative	τῇ ῥῑπῐ́ têi rhīpí	τοῖν ῥῑποῖν toîn rhīpoîn	ταῖς ῥῑψῐ́ / ῥῑψῐ́ν taîs rhīpsí(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥῖπᾰ tḕn rhîpa	τὼ ῥῖπε tṑ rhîpe	τᾱ̀ς ῥῖπᾰς tā̀s rhîpas
Vocative	ῥῑ́ψ rhī́ps	ῥῖπε rhîpe	ῥῖπες rhîpes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῥιπίς (rhipís)

Further reading

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