Ῥώμη

See also: Ρώμη and ῥώμη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin Rōma.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɔ̌ː.mɛː/ → /ˈro.mi/ → /ˈro.mi/

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

Proper noun

Ῥώμη • (Rhṓmē) f (genitive Ῥώμης); first declension

1. Rome

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ῥώμη; τῆς Ῥώμης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῥώμη hē Rhṓmē
Genitive	τῆς Ῥώμης tês Rhṓmēs
Dative	τῇ Ῥώμῃ têi Rhṓmēi
Accusative	τὴν Ῥώμην tḕn Rhṓmēn
Vocative	Ῥώμη Rhṓmē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ῥωμαΐζω (Rhōmaḯzō)
• Ῥωμαϊκός (Rhōmaïkós)
• Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos)
• Ῥωμαιότης (Rhōmaiótēs)
• Ῥωμαΐς (Rhōmaḯs)
• Ῥωμαϊστής (Rhōmaïstḗs)
• Ῥωμαϊστί (Rhōmaïstí)
• Ῥωμᾱνός (Rhōmānós)
• Ῥωμᾱνῐ́ᾱ (Rhōmāníā)

Related terms

• Ῥῶμος (Rhômos)
• Ῥώμυλος (Rhṓmulos)

Descendants

• Greek: Ρώμη (Rómi)
• → Arabic: رُومِية‎ (rūmiya)
• → Aramaic: רומא‎
  • Classical Syriac: ܪܘܡܐ‎ (Rōmāʾ, Rōmēʾ)
• → Old Armenian: Հռովմ (Hṙovm), Հռոմ (Hṙom)
  • Armenian: Հռոմ (Hṙom)
• → Egyptian: (hrm)
• → Parthian: frwm (Frōm)
• → Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬‎ (Hrōm, “Rome; Byzantine”)
  • → Arabic: رُوم‎ (rūm)
    • → Persian: روم‎ (rum)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: روم‎ (rum)
  • Persian: اروم‎ (orum) (rare, obsolete)
• → Sogdian: ("Rome, Byzantium")

  Manichaean: 𐫂𐫡𐫀𐫇𐫖‎ (βrʾwm /frūm, frōm/)

  Sogdian: 𐽃𐽀𐼴𐼺‎ (frwm /frūm/)

  • → Old Turkic: 𐰯𐰆𐰺𐰢‎ (pur¹m /purum/) ("Byzantium, Greek")
• → Chinese: 拂菻 (Fúlǐn) (via Iranian)

References

• “Ῥώμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4516 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • rome idem, page 721.