ῥίς

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Probably a Pre-Greek borrowing.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ῥῑ́ς (rhī́sf (genitive ῥῑνός); third declension

  1. nose, snout
    1. (in the plural) nostrils
  2. (probably) brow of a hill, projecting spur of land

Inflection

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Not to be confused with similar words meaning skin, leather; hide, shield from ἡ ῥῑνός (rhīnós)
or similar words meaning file, rasp from ἡ ῥίνη (rhínē)

Descendants

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  • Greek: ρίνα (rína)
  • English: rhino- (learned)
  • French: rhino- (learned)
  • German: rhino- (learned)
  • Greek: ρινο- (rino-) (learned)
  • Italian: rino- (learned)
  • Spanish: rino- (learned)

See also

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  • ῥῑνη f (rhīnē, rasp) or ῥίν (rhín, sense: rasp)
  • ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, hide; shield) το ῥῑνόν, του ῥῑνοῦ
  • ῥῑνός f (rhīnós, skin of a man; hide of a beast) ἡ ῥῑνός, τῆς ῥῑνοῦ (occasionally masculine)

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥίς, ῥῑνός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1288

Further reading

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  • ῥίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ῥίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ῥίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ῥίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ῥίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.