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ῥόδον
ῥόδον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βρόδον (bródon) Aeolic
Noun
ῥόδον • (rhódon) n (genitive ῥόδου); second declension
- rose (usually Rosa gallica)
- (in phrases)
- Crates Comicus, 4
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ὗς διὰ ῥόδων
- pig among roses (bull in a china shop)
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ὗς διὰ ῥόδων
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ῥόδον | τὼ ῥόδω | τᾰ̀ ῥόδᾰ | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥόδου | τοῖν ῥόδοιν | τῶν ῥόδων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥόδῳ | τοῖν ῥόδοιν | τοῖς ῥόδοις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ῥόδον | τὼ ῥόδω | τᾰ̀ ῥόδᾰ | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥόδον | ῥόδω | ῥόδᾰ | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- ῥοδοδάκτυλος (rhododáktulos, “rose-fingered”)
- ῥοδόδενδρον (rhodódendron)
- ῥοδόεις (rhodóeis, “rosy”)
Descendants
- English: rhodium, rhododendron
References
- ῥόδον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥόδον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ῥόδον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ῥόδον 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.
- rose idem, page 721.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1290
- ↑ Tucker, T.G., Etymological Dictionary of Latin, Ares Publishers, 1976 (reprint of 1931 edition).