ῥώψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

The word may be related to ῥαπίζω (rhapízō, “to cudgel, thrash”) and also to ῥέπω (rhépō, “to incline”) and ῥέμβω (rhémbō, “to turn in circles”), but connections outside Greek are not found. The word may be of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɔ̌ːps/ → /rops/ → /rops/

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

Noun

ῥώψ • (rhṓps) f (genitive ῥωπός); third declension

1. (in the plural) brushwood, underwood

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῥώψ; τῆς ῥωπός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥώψ hē rhṓps	τὼ ῥῶπε tṑ rhôpe	αἱ ῥῶπες hai rhôpes
Genitive	τῆς ῥωπός tês rhōpós	τοῖν ῥωποῖν toîn rhōpoîn	τῶν ῥωπῶν tôn rhōpôn
Dative	τῇ ῥωπῐ́ têi rhōpí	τοῖν ῥωποῖν toîn rhōpoîn	ταῖς ῥωψῐ́ / ῥωψῐ́ν taîs rhōpsí(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥῶπᾰ tḕn rhôpa	τὼ ῥῶπε tṑ rhôpe	τᾱ̀ς ῥῶπᾰς tā̀s rhôpas
Vocative	ῥώψ rhṓps	ῥῶπε rhôpe	ῥῶπες rhôpes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῥωπάκιον (rhōpákion)
• ῥῶπαξ (rhôpax)
• ῥωπάς (rhōpás)
• ῥωπεύω (rhōpeúō)
• ῥωπήεις (rhōpḗeis)
• ῥωπήϊον (rhōpḗïon)
• ῥωπίον (rhōpíon)
• χαμαίρωψ (khamaírōps)

 

Etymology 2

From Egyptian rms (“ship”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɔ̌ːps/ → /rops/ → /rops/

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

Noun

ῥώψ • (rhṓps) ? (indeclinable)

1. kind of Egyptian ship made of papyrus

Further reading

• “ῥώψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥώψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥώψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥώψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥώψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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