Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βρίζα ‎(bríza) (Aeolic)
• ῥίζη ‎(rhízē) (Ionic)

Noun

ῥίζα • ‎(rhíza) f ‎(genitive ῥίζης); first declension

1. root (of a plant)
2. source
3. base, foundation
4. stock, family, race

Inflection

Derived terms

• ῥιζικός ‎(rhizikós)

Descendants

• Greek: ρίζα ‎(ríza)

References

• ῥίζα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥίζα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥίζα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ῥίζα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ῥίζα» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ῥίζα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4491”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • base idem, page 64.
  • cause idem, page 118.
  • element idem, page 265.
  • family idem, page 305.
  • foot idem, page 333.
  • foundation idem, page 341.
  • line idem, page 492.
  • origin idem, page 579.
  • race idem, page 667.
  • root idem, page 721.
  • seed idem, page 749.
  • source idem, page 797.
  • spring idem, page 805.
  • starting point idem, page 812.
  • stem idem, page 815.
  • stock idem, page 818.