Ῥῆνος

See also: Ρήνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From a Gaulish *Rēnos (which was also the source of Proto-Germanic *Rīnaz). The Greek form is recorded in Strabo’s Geographica (1.4.3), written between 20 BC and AD 20, slightly later than the Latin equivalent Rhenus (Cicerio, In Pisonem, ca. 55 BCE).
The Gaulish name is from Proto-Celtic *reinos, from the Proto-Indo-European root *rey- (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ῥῆνος • (Rhênos) m (genitive Ῥήνου); second declension

the river Rhine

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Ῥῆνος; τοῦ Ῥήνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῥῆνος ho Rhênos
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥήνου toû Rhḗnou
Dative	τῷ Ῥήνῳ tôi Rhḗnōi
Accusative	τὸν Ῥῆνον tòn Rhênon
Vocative	Ῥῆνε Rhêne
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

Afrikaans: Ryn
Albanian: Rhein
Alemannic German: Rhein
Amharic: ራይን (rayn)
Arabic: راين
Basque: Rhin
Breton: Roen
Bulgarian: Рейн (Rejn)
Catalan: Rin
Chuvash: Рейн (Rejn)
Corsican: Renu
Czech: Rýn
Danish: Rhinen
Dutch: Rĳn
English: Rhine
Estonian: Rein
Finnish: Rein
French: Rhin
Galician: Rhin
German: Rhein
Central Franconian: Rhing
Hebrew: רינוס
Hungarian: Rajna
Icelandic: Rín
Indonesian: Rhein
Irish: Réin
Italian: Reno
Japanese: ライン (Rain)
Korean: 라인 (rain)
Latin: Rhēnus
Latvian: Reina
Lithuanian: Reinas
Lombard: Renu
Low German: Rhien
Luxembourgish: Rhäin
Malaysian: Rhine
Marathi: र्‍हाइन (r‍hāin)
Norwegian: Rhinen
Occitan: Ren
Old English: Rīn
Persian: راین
Polish: Ren
Portuguese: Reno
Quechua: Rhein
Romanian: Rin
Romansch: Rain
Russian: Рейн (Rejn)
Serbo-Croatian: Рајна, Rajna
Sicilian: Rinu
Slovak: Rýn
Slovene: Ren
Spanish: Rin
Swahili: Rhine
Swedish: Rhen
Turkish: Ren
Ukrainian: Рейн (Rejn)
Welsh: Rhein
West Frisian: Ryn

Descendants

Armenian: Հռենոս (Hṙenos)
Greek: Ρήνος (Rínos)

References

Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024