ῥίσκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably a loanword. According to Donatus, it is of Phrygian origin, a path followed by Thumb, who considers Proto-Celtic to be the ultimate source, comparing Irish rúsc (“bark of a tree”). The word would have reached Greek from Galatian, through Phrygian because of the change u > i. Anyway, Beekes doesn't dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ís.kos/ → /ˈris.kos/ → /ˈris.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ís.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈris.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈris.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈris.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈris.kos/

Noun

ῥῐ́σκος • (rhískos) m (genitive ῥῐ́σκου); second declension

1. coffer, chest, especially for plate or money

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥῐ́σκος; τοῦ ῥῐ́σκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥῐ́σκος ho rhískos	τὼ ῥῐ́σκω tṑ rhískō	οἱ ῥῐ́σκοι hoi rhískoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῥῐ́σκου toû rhískou	τοῖν ῥῐ́σκοιν toîn rhískoin	τῶν ῥῐ́σκων tôn rhískōn
Dative	τῷ ῥῐ́σκῳ tôi rhískōi	τοῖν ῥῐ́σκοιν toîn rhískoin	τοῖς ῥῐ́σκοις toîs rhískois
Accusative	τὸν ῥῐ́σκον tòn rhískon	τὼ ῥῐ́σκω tṑ rhískō	τοὺς ῥῐ́σκους toùs rhískous
Vocative	ῥῐ́σκε rhíske	ῥῐ́σκω rhískō	ῥῐ́σκοι rhískoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῥισκοφυλάκιον (rhiskophulákion)
• ῥισκοφύλαξ (rhiskophúlax)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: riscus

Further reading

• “ῥίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥίσκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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