ῥύσιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥύτιον (rhútion) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to tear, dig, burrow, gather”), the same root of ἐρύω (erúō, “to draw, drag, pull”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥y̌ː.si.on/ → /ˈry.si.on/ → /ˈri.si.on/

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

Noun

ῥῡ́σῐον • (rhū́sion) n (genitive ῥῡσῐ́ου); second declension

1. surety, pledge

   Synonyms: ἐγγῠ́η (engúē), ἐνέχῠρον (enékhuron), ὑποθήκη (hupothḗkē)

2. property held as a compensation
3. booty, prey, that which is dragged away
4. reprisal, retaliation
5. (in the plural) restitution, deliverance

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῥῡ́σῐον; τοῦ ῥῡσῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥῡ́σῐον tò rhū́sion	τὼ ῥῡσῐ́ω tṑ rhūsíō	τᾰ̀ ῥῡ́σῐᾰ tà rhū́sia
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῡσῐ́ου toû rhūsíou	τοῖν ῥῡσῐ́οιν toîn rhūsíoin	τῶν ῥῡσῐ́ων tôn rhūsíōn
Dative	τῷ ῥῡσῐ́ῳ tôi rhūsíōi	τοῖν ῥῡσῐ́οιν toîn rhūsíoin	τοῖς ῥῡσῐ́οις toîs rhūsíois
Accusative	τὸ ῥῡ́σῐον tò rhū́sion	τὼ ῥῡσῐ́ω tṑ rhūsíō	τᾰ̀ ῥῡ́σῐᾰ tà rhū́sia
Vocative	ῥῡ́σῐον rhū́sion	ῥῡσῐ́ω rhūsíō	ῥῡ́σῐᾰ rhū́sia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• ῥυσιάζω (rhusiázō)

Further reading

• “ῥύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥύσιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥύσιον 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