ῥύμη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to draw”) and related to ἐρύω (erúō, “to draw, tear”), ῥυμός (rhumós, “pole of a chariot”) and ῥυτά (rhutá, “reins”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥y̌ː.mɛː/ → /ˈry.mi/ → /ˈri.mi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥y̌ː.mɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈry.me̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.mi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.mi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.mi/

Noun

ῥῡ́μη • (rhū́mē) f (genitive ῥῡ́μης); first declension

1. force, swing, rush of a body in motion
2. rush, charge of soldiers or ships
3. street, lane, alley
4. slit, chink, crack

Declension

First declension of ἡ ῥῡ́μη; τῆς ῥῡ́μης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῡ́μη hē rhū́mē	τὼ ῥῡ́μᾱ tṑ rhū́mā	αἱ ῥῦμαι hai rhûmai
Genitive	τῆς ῥῡ́μης tês rhū́mēs	τοῖν ῥῡ́μαιν toîn rhū́main	τῶν ῥῡμῶν tôn rhūmôn
Dative	τῇ ῥῡ́μῃ têi rhū́mēi	τοῖν ῥῡ́μαιν toîn rhū́main	ταῖς ῥῡ́μαις taîs rhū́mais
Accusative	τὴν ῥῡ́μην tḕn rhū́mēn	τὼ ῥῡ́μᾱ tṑ rhū́mā	τᾱ̀ς ῥῡ́μᾱς tā̀s rhū́mās
Vocative	ῥῡ́μη rhū́mē	ῥῡ́μᾱ rhū́mā	ῥῦμαι rhûmai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῥυμαρχής (rhumarkhḗs)
• ῥυμηδόν (rhumēdón)

 

References

• “ῥύμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥύμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥύμη 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