ῥομβοειδής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥόμβος (rhómbos) +‎ -ειδής (-eidḗs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥om.bo.eː.dɛ̌ːs/ → /rom.bo.iˈðis/ → /rom.bo.iˈðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥om.bo.eː.dɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /rom.bo.iˈde̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /rom.bo.iˈðis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /rom.bo.iˈðis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /rom.bo.iˈðis/

Adjective

ῥομβοειδής • (rhomboeidḗs) m or f (neuter ῥομβοειδές); third declension

1. rhombus-shaped, rhomboidal
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 35
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 2.1.22
   • 350 BCE – 250 BCE, Euclid, Elements 1.22
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Belopoeica 52.30
   • 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Alm. 7.5
   • Hegesand. 37
   • 490 CE – 560 CE, Simplicius, On Aristotle's On the Heavens 410.5
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Theseus 27

Declension

Third declension of ῥομβοειδής; ῥομβοειδές (contracted, Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ῥομβοειδής rhomboeidḗs	ῥομβοειδές rhomboeidés		ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî		ῥομβοειδεῖς rhomboeideîs	ῥομβοειδῆ rhomboeidê
Genitive		ῥομβοειδοῦς rhomboeidoûs	ῥομβοειδοῦς rhomboeidoûs		ῥομβοειδοῖν rhomboeidoîn	ῥομβοειδοῖν rhomboeidoîn		ῥομβοειδῶν rhomboeidôn	ῥομβοειδῶν rhomboeidôn
Dative		ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî		ῥομβοειδοῖν rhomboeidoîn	ῥομβοειδοῖν rhomboeidoîn		ῥομβοειδέσῐ / ῥομβοειδέσῐν rhomboeidési(n)	ῥομβοειδέσῐ / ῥομβοειδέσῐν rhomboeidési(n)
Accusative		ῥομβοειδῆ rhomboeidê	ῥομβοειδές rhomboeidés		ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî		ῥομβοειδεῖς rhomboeideîs	ῥομβοειδῆ rhomboeidê
Vocative		ῥομβοειδές rhomboeidés	ῥομβοειδές rhomboeidés		ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî	ῥομβοειδεῖ rhomboeideî		ῥομβοειδεῖς rhomboeideîs	ῥομβοειδῆ rhomboeidê
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		ῥομβοειδῶς rhomboeidôs			ῥομβοειδέστερος rhomboeidésteros			ῥομβοειδέστᾰτος rhomboeidéstatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: rhomboīdēs

References

• “ῥομβοειδής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥομβοειδής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥομβοειδής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette