ῥῆγος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.ɡos/ → /ˈri.ɣos/ → /ˈri.ɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.ɡos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈre̝.ɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ɣos/

Noun

ῥῆγος • (rhêgos) n (genitive ῥήγεος); third declension

1. blanket, coverlet
2. cover, cushion (for bed or chairs)

Declension

Third declension of τὸ ῥῆγος; τοῦ ῥήγεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥῆγος tò rhêgos	τὼ ῥήγεε tṑ rhḗgee	τᾰ̀ ῥήγεᾰ tà rhḗgea
Genitive	τοῦ ῥήγεος toû rhḗgeos	τοῖν ῥηγέοιν toîn rhēgéoin	τῶν ῥηγέων tôn rhēgéōn
Dative	τῷ ῥήγεῐ̈ tôi rhḗgeï	τοῖν ῥηγέοιν toîn rhēgéoin	τοῖς ῥήγεσῐ / ῥήγεσῐν toîs rhḗgesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῥῆγος tò rhêgos	τὼ ῥήγεε tṑ rhḗgee	τᾰ̀ ῥήγεᾰ tà rhḗgea
Vocative	ῥῆγος rhêgos	ῥήγεε rhḗgee	ῥήγεᾰ rhḗgea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• →⇒ New Latin: rego- (learned)
  • → English: rego- (learned)

Further reading

• “ῥῆγος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥῆγος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥῆγος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ῥῆγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press