ῥαδινός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βραδινός (bradinós) — Aeolic

Etymology

The formation is like in πυκινός (pukinós) but the basis is unknown. Some connect this word with ῥάδαμνος (rhádamnos, “branch, twig”), while Lobeck also connects ῥαδές (rhadés, “bent to both sides”). Beekes confront the adjective with ῥοδανός (rhodanós, “wavering, flickering”) and concludes that both words are from Pre-Greek, in view of the variation ῥαδ-/ῥοδ- (rhad-/rhod-).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥a.di.nós/ → /ra.ðiˈnos/ → /ra.ðiˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥a.di.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ra.diˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ra.ðiˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ra.ðiˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ra.ðiˈnos/

Adjective

ῥᾰδῐνός • (rhadinós) m (feminine ῥᾰδῐνή, neuter ῥᾰδῐνόν); first/second declension

1. slender, taper, thin
2. soft, tender, mobile

Inflection

First and second declension of ῥᾰδῐνός; ῥᾰδῐνή; ῥᾰδῐνόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ῥᾰδῐνός rhadinós	ῥᾰδῐνή rhadinḗ	ῥᾰδῐνόν rhadinón		ῥᾰδῐνώ rhadinṓ	ῥᾰδῐνᾱ́ rhadinā́	ῥᾰδῐνώ rhadinṓ		ῥᾰδῐνοί rhadinoí	ῥᾰδῐναί rhadinaí	ῥᾰδῐνᾰ́ rhadiná
Genitive		ῥᾰδῐνοῦ rhadinoû	ῥᾰδῐνῆς rhadinês	ῥᾰδῐνοῦ rhadinoû		ῥᾰδῐνοῖν rhadinoîn	ῥᾰδῐναῖν rhadinaîn	ῥᾰδῐνοῖν rhadinoîn		ῥᾰδῐνῶν rhadinôn	ῥᾰδῐνῶν rhadinôn	ῥᾰδῐνῶν rhadinôn
Dative		ῥᾰδῐνῷ rhadinôi	ῥᾰδῐνῇ rhadinêi	ῥᾰδῐνῷ rhadinôi		ῥᾰδῐνοῖν rhadinoîn	ῥᾰδῐναῖν rhadinaîn	ῥᾰδῐνοῖν rhadinoîn		ῥᾰδῐνοῖς rhadinoîs	ῥᾰδῐναῖς rhadinaîs	ῥᾰδῐνοῖς rhadinoîs
Accusative		ῥᾰδῐνόν rhadinón	ῥᾰδῐνήν rhadinḗn	ῥᾰδῐνόν rhadinón		ῥᾰδῐνώ rhadinṓ	ῥᾰδῐνᾱ́ rhadinā́	ῥᾰδῐνώ rhadinṓ		ῥᾰδῐνούς rhadinoús	ῥᾰδῐνᾱ́ς rhadinā́s	ῥᾰδῐνᾰ́ rhadiná
Vocative		ῥᾰδῐνέ rhadiné	ῥᾰδῐνή rhadinḗ	ῥᾰδῐνόν rhadinón		ῥᾰδῐνώ rhadinṓ	ῥᾰδῐνᾱ́ rhadinā́	ῥᾰδῐνώ rhadinṓ		ῥᾰδῐνοί rhadinoí	ῥᾰδῐναί rhadinaí	ῥᾰδῐνᾰ́ rhadiná
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ῥᾰδῐνῶς rhadinôs				ῥᾰδῐνώτερος rhadinṓteros				ῥᾰδῐνώτᾰτος rhadinṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ραδινός (radinós)

Further reading

• “ῥαδινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥαδινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥαδινός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥαδινός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥαδινός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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