ῥάβδος

See also: ράβδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of unclear origin. Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *urb-, with cognates such as Lithuanian virbas, Old Church Slavonic врьба (vrĭba) (Russian верба (verba)) and Latin verbēnae. Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥áb.dos/ → /ˈraβ.ðos/ → /ˈrav.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥áb.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈrab.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈraβ.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈrav.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈrav.ðos/

Noun

ῥᾰ́βδος • (rhábdos) f (genitive ῥᾰ́βδου); second declension

1. rod, wand, stick
2. magic wand, scepter
3. shaft of a spear
4. stripe, strip, streak
5. (grammar) line, verse

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ ῥᾰ́βδος; τῆς ῥᾰ́βδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥᾰ́βδος hē rhábdos	τὼ ῥᾰ́βδω tṑ rhábdō	αἱ ῥᾰ́βδοι hai rhábdoi
Genitive	τῆς ῥᾰ́βδου tês rhábdou	τοῖν ῥᾰ́βδοιν toîn rhábdoin	τῶν ῥᾰ́βδων tôn rhábdōn
Dative	τῇ ῥᾰ́βδῳ têi rhábdōi	τοῖν ῥᾰ́βδοιν toîn rhábdoin	ταῖς ῥᾰ́βδοις taîs rhábdois
Accusative	τὴν ῥᾰ́βδον tḕn rhábdon	τὼ ῥᾰ́βδω tṑ rhábdō	τᾱ̀ς ῥᾰ́βδους tā̀s rhábdous
Vocative	ῥᾰ́βδε rhábde	ῥᾰ́βδω rhábdō	ῥᾰ́βδοι rhábdoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῥᾰβδοῦχος (rhabdoûkhos)
• ῥᾰβδῐ́ον (rhabdíon)

 

Descendants

• English: rhabdo-
• Greek: ράβδος (rávdos)

Further reading

• “ῥάβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥάβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥάβδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥάβδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥάβδος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ῥάβδος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4464 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cane idem, page 110.
  • cudgel idem, page 188.
  • ferule idem, page 316.
  • fishing-rod idem, page 323.
  • rod idem, page 720.
  • shaft idem, page 760.
  • staff idem, page 808.
  • stick idem, page 816.
  • switch idem, page 849.
  • truncheon idem, page 898.
  • walking stick idem, page 960.
  • wand idem, page 961.