ῥιπίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥίψ (rhíps, “mat, wickerwork”) +‎ -ίς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥iː.pís/ → /riˈpis/ → /riˈpis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥iː.pís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /riˈpis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /riˈpis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /riˈpis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈpis/

Noun

ῥῑπῐ́ς • (rhīpís) f (genitive ῥῑπῐ́δος); third declension

1. fan for raising the fire
2. fan used by ladies

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῥῑπῐ́ς; τῆς ῥῑπῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῑπῐ́ς hē rhīpís	τὼ ῥῑπῐ́δε tṑ rhīpíde	αἱ ῥῑπῐ́δες hai rhīpídes
Genitive	τῆς ῥῑπῐ́δος tês rhīpídos	τοῖν ῥῑπῐ́δοιν toîn rhīpídoin	τῶν ῥῑπῐ́δων tôn rhīpídōn
Dative	τῇ ῥῑπῐ́δῐ têi rhīpídi	τοῖν ῥῑπῐ́δοιν toîn rhīpídoin	ταῖς ῥῑπῐ́σῐ / ῥῑπῐ́σῐν taîs rhīpísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥῑπῐ́δᾰ tḕn rhīpída	τὼ ῥῑπῐ́δε tṑ rhīpíde	τᾱ̀ς ῥῑπῐ́δᾰς tā̀s rhīpídas
Vocative	ῥῑπῐ́ς rhīpís	ῥῑπῐ́δε rhīpíde	ῥῑπῐ́δες rhīpídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ῥιπίδιον (rhipídion)

Further reading

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