ῥύπος

See also: ρύπος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No convincing etymology. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)roupos- and cognate with Proto-Slavic *strupъ (“scab”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ý.pos/ → /ˈry.pos/ → /ˈri.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ý.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈry.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.pos/

Noun

ῥῠ́πος • (rhúpos) m (genitive ῥύπου); second declension

1. dirt, filth, uncleanliness
2. sordidness, meanness
3. sealing wax

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥῠ́πος; τοῦ ῥῠ́που (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥῠ́πος ho rhúpos	τὼ ῥῠ́πω tṑ rhúpō	οἱ ῥῠ́ποι hoi rhúpoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῠ́που toû rhúpou	τοῖν ῥῠ́ποιν toîn rhúpoin	τῶν ῥῠ́πων tôn rhúpōn
Dative	τῷ ῥῠ́πῳ tôi rhúpōi	τοῖν ῥῠ́ποιν toîn rhúpoin	τοῖς ῥῠ́ποις toîs rhúpois
Accusative	τὸν ῥῠ́πον tòn rhúpon	τὼ ῥῠ́πω tṑ rhúpō	τοὺς ῥῠ́πους toùs rhúpous
Vocative	ῥῠ́πε rhúpe	ῥῠ́πω rhúpō	ῥῠ́ποι rhúpoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῥυπαίνω (rhupaínō)
• ῥυπαρός (rhuparós)
• ῥύπασμα (rhúpasma)
• ῥυπάω (rhupáō)
• ῥυπέλαιον (rhupélaion)
• ῥυποέις (rhupoéis)
• ῥυποκέραμος (rhupokéramos)
• ῥυποκόνδυλος (rhupokóndulos)
• ῥυπόω (rhupóō)
• ῥυπώδης (rhupṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ρύπος (rýpos)

Further reading

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