ῥόος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • ῥόϝος (rhówos) – Cypriot
  • ῥοῦς (rhoûs) – Attic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *rhówos, from Proto-Indo-European *srówos, from *srew- (“to flow”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ῥόος • (rhóos) m (genitive ῥόου); second declension

  1. stream, flow, current

Declension
Second declension of ὁ ῥόος; τοῦ ῥόου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ῥόος
ho rhóos		 τὼ ῥόω
tṑ rhóō		 οἱ ῥόοι
hoi rhóoi
Genitive τοῦ ῥόου
toû rhóou		 τοῖν ῥόοιν
toîn rhóoin		 τῶν ῥόων
tôn rhóōn
Dative τῷ ῥόῳ
tôi rhóōi		 τοῖν ῥόοιν
toîn rhóoin		 τοῖς ῥόοις
toîs rhóois
Accusative τὸν ῥόον
tòn rhóon		 τὼ ῥόω
tṑ rhóō		 τοὺς ῥόους
toùs rhóous
Vocative ῥόε
rhóe		 ῥόω
rhóō		 ῥόοι
rhóoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Ionic and later writers have the dative singular ῥοΐ (rhoḯ).

Further reading
  • ῥόος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ῥόος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ῥόος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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