ῥόμβος
See also: ρόμβος
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom ῥέμβω (rhémbō, “I turn”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥óm.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈrom.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈrom.bos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈrom.bos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈrom.bos/
Noun
editῥόμβος • (rhómbos) m (genitive ῥόμβου); second declension
- (religion) bullroarer, an instrument whirled on the end of a string
- anything which may be turned or spun
- top (toy)
- magical wheel used by magicians
- (music) type of tambourine
- penis
- a spinning motion
- (geometry) rhombus
- type of fish including the turbot and brill
- (medicine) a surgeon's bandage
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῥόμβος ho rhómbos |
τὼ ῥόμβω tṑ rhómbō |
οἱ ῥόμβοι hoi rhómboi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῥόμβου toû rhómbou |
τοῖν ῥόμβοιν toîn rhómboin |
τῶν ῥόμβων tôn rhómbōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῥόμβῳ tôi rhómbōi |
τοῖν ῥόμβοιν toîn rhómboin |
τοῖς ῥόμβοις toîs rhómbois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῥόμβον tòn rhómbon |
τὼ ῥόμβω tṑ rhómbō |
τοὺς ῥόμβους toùs rhómbous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥόμβε rhómbe |
ῥόμβω rhómbō |
ῥόμβοι rhómboi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- ῥομβοειδής (rhomboeidḗs)
Descendants
edit- → Greek: ρόμβος (rómvos) (learned)
- → Latin: rhombus (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: ռումբ (ṙumb) (possibly)
- → Georgian: რუმბი (rumbi) (possibly)
- → Russian: ромб m (romb)
Further reading
edit- “ῥόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥόμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ῥόμβος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
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- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
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- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- grc:Religion
- grc:Musical instruments
- grc:Geometry
- Ancient Greek terms with quotations
- grc:Medicine
- grc:Toys
- grc:Fish