Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥῑ́ν ‎(rhī́n) Later poetic

Noun

ῥῑ́ς • ‎(rhī́s) f ‎(genitive ῥῑνός); third declension

1. nose, snout
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.291
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.445
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.154
   • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 21
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Hermotimus 68
     • 73
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 6.37
   1. (in the plural) nostrils
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.503
        • 14.467
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.456
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 267
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 918
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 344
      • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 79e
2. (probably) brow of a hill, projecting spur of land
   • 1 CE – 100 CE, Aretaeus, De Curatione Acutorum Morborum 1.2
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Lucius or The Ass 12
   • 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Fasc. 11

Inflection

References

• ῥίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥίς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥίς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ῥίς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ῥίς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • nose idem, page 560.
  • nostril idem, page 560.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ῥίς, ῥῑνός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1288