ῥεῦσις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥύσις (rhúsis)

Etymology

From ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥êu̯.sis/ → /ˈreɸ.sis/ → /ˈref.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥êu̯.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈrew.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈreɸ.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈref.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈref.sis/

Noun

ῥεῦσῐς • (rheûsis) f (genitive ῥεύσεως); third declension

1. flowing

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῥεῦσῐς; τῆς ῥεύσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥεῦσῐς hē rheûsis	τὼ ῥεύσει tṑ rheúsei	αἱ ῥεύσεις hai rheúseis
Genitive	τῆς ῥεύσεως tês rheúseōs	τοῖν ῥευσέοιν toîn rheuséoin	τῶν ῥεύσεων tôn rheúseōn
Dative	τῇ ῥεύσει têi rheúsei	τοῖν ῥευσέοιν toîn rheuséoin	ταῖς ῥεύσεσῐ / ῥεύσεσῐν taîs rheúsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥεῦσῐν tḕn rheûsin	τὼ ῥεύσει tṑ rheúsei	τᾱ̀ς ῥεύσεις tā̀s rheúseis
Vocative	ῥεῦσῐ rheûsi	ῥεύσει rheúsei	ῥεύσεις rheúseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

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