ῥοῦς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

(At least in the sense of stream, flow) Contracted form of ῥόος (rhóos, “flow”), ultimately from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ûːs/ → /rus/ → /rus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ûːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /rus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /rus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /rus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /rus/

Noun

ῥοῦς • (rhoûs) m (genitive ῥοῦ); second declension or
ῥοῦς • (rhoûs) m (genitive ῥοός); third declension

1. sumac (Rhus coriaria)
2. its fruit, used in medicine
3. ryegrass (Lolium perenne)
4. stream, flow of water, current

Inflection

Second declension:

Second declension of ὁ ῥοῦς; τοῦ ῥοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥοῦς ho rhoûs	τὼ ῥώ tṑ rhṓ	οἱ ῥοῖ hoi rhoî
Genitive	τοῦ ῥοῦ toû rhoû	τοῖν ῥοῖν toîn rhoîn	τῶν ῥῶν tôn rhôn
Dative	τῷ ῥῷ tôi rhôi	τοῖν ῥοῖν toîn rhoîn	τοῖς ῥοῖς toîs rhoîs
Accusative	τὸν ῥοῦν tòn rhoûn	τὼ ῥώ tṑ rhṓ	τοὺς ῥοῦς toùs rhoûs
Vocative	ῥοῦ rhoû	ῥώ rhṓ	ῥοῖ rhoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension:

Irregular declension of ὁ, ἡ ῥοῦς; τοῦ, τῆς ῥοός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ ῥοῦς ho, hē rhoûs	τὼ ῥόε tṑ rhóe	οἱ, αἱ ῥόες hoi, hai rhóes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς ῥοός toû, tês rhoós	τοῖν ῥοοῖν toîn rhooîn	τῶν ῥοῶν tôn rhoôn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ ῥοΐ tôi, têi rhoḯ	τοῖν ῥοοῖν toîn rhooîn	τοῖς, ταῖς ῥουσί / ῥουσίν toîs, taîs rhousí(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν ῥοῦν tòn, tḕn rhoûn	τὼ ῥόε tṑ rhóe	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ῥοῦς toùs, tā̀s rhoûs
Vocative	ῥοῦ rhoû	ῥόε rhóe	ῥόες rhóes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Rhus

Further reading

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