Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥυσμός ‎(rhusmós) (Ionic)

Noun

ῥυθμός • ‎(rhuthmós) m ‎(genitive ῥυθμοῦ); second declension

1. a repeating, regular motion, vibration
2. measured motion, rhythm
3. measure, proportion, symmetry
4. proportion, arrangement, order
5. state, condition
6. form, shape
7. manner, fashion

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἄρρυθμος ‎(árrhuthmos, “arhythmic”)
• ἐν ῥυθμῷ ‎(en rhuthmôi, “in time”)

Descendants

• Greek: ρυθμός ‎(rythmós)
• Latin: rhythmus
  • French: rythme

References

• ῥυθμός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥυθμός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ῥυθμός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥυθμός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cadence idem, page 108.
  • fashion idem, page 308.
  • kind idem, page 469.
  • manner idem, page 512.
  • measure idem, page 520.
  • regularity idem, page 687.
  • rhythm idem, page 712.
  • sort idem, page 795.
  • symmetry idem, page 850.
  • time idem, page 875.
  • uniformity idem, page 921.