ῥοδανός

See also: Ῥοδανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, related to ῥαδινός (rhadinós, “taper, slender”) and thus from Pre-Greek, in view of the variation ῥαδ-/ῥοδ- (rhad-/rhod-).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥o.da.nós/ → /ro.ðaˈnos/ → /ro.ðaˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥o.da.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ro.daˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ro.ðaˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ro.ðaˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ro.ðaˈnos/

Adjective

ῥοδᾰνός • (rhodanós) m (feminine ῥοδᾰνή, neuter ῥοδᾰνόν); first/second declension

1. wavering, flickering

Inflection

First and second declension of ῥοδᾰνός; ῥοδᾰνή; ῥοδᾰνόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ῥοδᾰνός rhodanós	ῥοδᾰνή rhodanḗ	ῥοδᾰνόν rhodanón		ῥοδᾰνώ rhodanṓ	ῥοδᾰνᾱ́ rhodanā́	ῥοδᾰνώ rhodanṓ		ῥοδᾰνοί rhodanoí	ῥοδᾰναί rhodanaí	ῥοδᾰνᾰ́ rhodaná
Genitive		ῥοδᾰνοῦ rhodanoû	ῥοδᾰνῆς rhodanês	ῥοδᾰνοῦ rhodanoû		ῥοδᾰνοῖν rhodanoîn	ῥοδᾰναῖν rhodanaîn	ῥοδᾰνοῖν rhodanoîn		ῥοδᾰνῶν rhodanôn	ῥοδᾰνῶν rhodanôn	ῥοδᾰνῶν rhodanôn
Dative		ῥοδᾰνῷ rhodanôi	ῥοδᾰνῇ rhodanêi	ῥοδᾰνῷ rhodanôi		ῥοδᾰνοῖν rhodanoîn	ῥοδᾰναῖν rhodanaîn	ῥοδᾰνοῖν rhodanoîn		ῥοδᾰνοῖς rhodanoîs	ῥοδᾰναῖς rhodanaîs	ῥοδᾰνοῖς rhodanoîs
Accusative		ῥοδᾰνόν rhodanón	ῥοδᾰνήν rhodanḗn	ῥοδᾰνόν rhodanón		ῥοδᾰνώ rhodanṓ	ῥοδᾰνᾱ́ rhodanā́	ῥοδᾰνώ rhodanṓ		ῥοδᾰνούς rhodanoús	ῥοδᾰνᾱ́ς rhodanā́s	ῥοδᾰνᾰ́ rhodaná
Vocative		ῥοδᾰνέ rhodané	ῥοδᾰνή rhodanḗ	ῥοδᾰνόν rhodanón		ῥοδᾰνώ rhodanṓ	ῥοδᾰνᾱ́ rhodanā́	ῥοδᾰνώ rhodanṓ		ῥοδᾰνοί rhodanoí	ῥοδᾰναί rhodanaí	ῥοδᾰνᾰ́ rhodaná
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ῥοδᾰνῶς rhodanôs				ῥοδᾰνώτερος rhodanṓteros				ῥοδᾰνώτᾰτος rhodanṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῥοδᾰ́νη (rhodánē)
• ῥοδᾰνῐ́ζω (rhodanízō)
• ῥοδᾰνῐστήρῐον (rhodanistḗrion)

 

Further reading

• “ῥοδανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥοδανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥοδανός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥοδανός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥοδανός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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