Ῥώμη

See also: Ρώμη and ῥώμη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed 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: (/⁠Frōm⁠/)

  Inscriptional Parthian script: 𐭐𐭓𐭅𐭌 (prwm)

  Manichaean script: 𐫜𐫡𐫇𐫖 (frwm)

  • → Sogdian: ("Rome, Byzantium")

    Manichaean script: 𐫂𐫡𐫀𐫇𐫖 (βrʾwm /⁠Frūm, Frōm⁠/)

    Sogdian script: 𐽃𐽀𐼴𐼺 (frwm /⁠Frūm⁠/)

    • → Old Turkic: 𐰯𐰆𐰺𐰢 (pur¹m /⁠purum⁠/) ("Byzantium, Greek")
  • → Chinese: 拂菻 (Fúlǐn) (via Iranian)
• → Middle Persian: (/⁠Hrōm⁠/, “Rome; Byzantine”)

  Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (hlwm)

  Manichaean script: 𐫍𐫡𐫇𐫖 (hrwm)

  Pazend script: 𐬀𐬭𐬋𐬨 (arōm)

  Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬𐭩 (ḥlwmy), Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬 (ḥlwm)

  • Persian: روم (rum), اروم (orum) (rare, obsolete)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: روم (rum)

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.