ῥόμος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥόμοξ (rhómox)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis. Cognates include Latin vermis, Russian ве́рмие (vérmije), Albanian rrime, and Old English wyrm (English worm).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ó.mos/ → /ˈro.mos/ → /ˈro.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ó.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈro.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈro.mos/

Noun

ῥόμος • (rhómos) m (genitive ῥόμου); second declension

1. (hapax) woodworm

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥόμος; τοῦ ῥόμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥόμος ho rhómos	τὼ ῥόμω tṑ rhómō	οἱ ῥόμοι hoi rhómoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῥόμου toû rhómou	τοῖν ῥόμοιν toîn rhómoin	τῶν ῥόμων tôn rhómōn
Dative	τῷ ῥόμῳ tôi rhómōi	τοῖν ῥόμοιν toîn rhómoin	τοῖς ῥόμοις toîs rhómois
Accusative	τὸν ῥόμον tòn rhómon	τὼ ῥόμω tṑ rhómō	τοὺς ῥόμους toùs rhómous
Vocative	ῥόμε rhóme	ῥόμω rhómō	ῥόμοι rhómoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ῥόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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