ῥόμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis. Cognates include Latin vermis, Russian ве́рмие (vérmije), Albanian rrime, and Old English wyrm (English worm).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ῥόμος • (rhómos) m (genitive ῥόμου); second declension

  1. (hapax legomenon) wood-worm

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ῥόμος; τοῦ ῥόμου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ῥόμος
ho rhómos		 τὼ ῥόμω
tṑ rhómō		 οἱ ῥόμοι
hoi rhómoi
Genitive τοῦ ῥόμου
toû rhómou		 τοῖν ῥόμοιν
toîn rhómoin		 τῶν ῥόμων
tôn rhómōn
Dative τῷ ῥόμῳ
tôi rhómōi		 τοῖν ῥόμοιν
toîn rhómoin		 τοῖς ῥόμοις
toîs rhómois
Accusative τὸν ῥόμον
tòn rhómon		 τὼ ῥόμω
tṑ rhómō		 τοὺς ῥόμους
toùs rhómous
Vocative ῥόμε
rhóme		 ῥόμω
rhómō		 ῥόμοι
rhómoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading
  • ῥόμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 9789004174207
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.