Ῥῆσος

See also: Ρήσος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

“Ruler.” Satem sound-change from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Proper noun

Ῥῆσος • (Rhêsos) m (genitive Ῥήσου); second declension

1. Rhesus of Thrace (a king who fought on the side of Trojans in the Iliad)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Ῥῆσος; τοῦ Ῥήσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῥῆσος ho Rhêsos
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥήσου toû Rhḗsou
Dative	τῷ Ῥήσῳ tôi Rhḗsōi
Accusative	τὸν Ῥῆσον tòn Rhêson
Vocative	Ῥῆσε Rhêse
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Personal names rarely take the definite article.

Descendants

• Greek: Ρήσος (Rísos)
• → Latin: Rhēsus

Further reading

• “Ῥῆσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Ῥῆσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
• Rhesus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia