ῥοδισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥοδίζω (rhodízō, “I decorate with roses”) +‎ -μός (-mós, noun suffix), the former from ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥o.diz.mós/ → /ro.ðizˈmos/ → /ro.ðizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥o.diz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ro.dizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ro.ðizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ro.ðizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ro.ðizˈmos/

Noun

ῥοδισμός • (rhodismós) m (genitive ῥοδῐ̈σμοῦ); second declension

1. a ceremony at which graves were decked with roses

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥοδῐ̈σμός; τοῦ ῥοδῐ̈σμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥοδῐ̈σμός ho rhodïsmós	τὼ ῥοδῐ̈σμώ tṑ rhodïsmṓ	οἱ ῥοδῐ̈σμοί hoi rhodïsmoí
Genitive	τοῦ ῥοδῐ̈σμοῦ toû rhodïsmoû	τοῖν ῥοδῐ̈σμοῖν toîn rhodïsmoîn	τῶν ῥοδῐ̈σμῶν tôn rhodïsmôn
Dative	τῷ ῥοδῐ̈σμῷ tôi rhodïsmôi	τοῖν ῥοδῐ̈σμοῖν toîn rhodïsmoîn	τοῖς ῥοδῐ̈σμοῖς toîs rhodïsmoîs
Accusative	τὸν ῥοδῐ̈σμόν tòn rhodïsmón	τὼ ῥοδῐ̈σμώ tṑ rhodïsmṓ	τοὺς ῥοδῐ̈σμούς toùs rhodïsmoús
Vocative	ῥοδῐ̈σμέ rhodïsmé	ῥοδῐ̈σμώ rhodïsmṓ	ῥοδῐ̈σμοί rhodïsmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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