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Ῥωμαῖος
Ῥωμαῖος
See also: Ρωμαίος
Ancient Greek
Adjective
Ῥωμαῖος • (Rhōmaîos) m (feminine Ῥωμαίᾱ, neuter Ῥωμαῖον); first/second declension
Inflection
Declension of Ῥωμαῖος; Ῥωμαίᾱ; Ῥωμαῖον
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
| Nominative | Ῥωμαῖος | Ῥωμαίᾱ | Ῥωμαῖον | Ῥωμαίω | Ῥωμαίᾱ | Ῥωμαίω | Ῥωμαῖοι | Ῥώμαιαι | Ῥωμαῖᾰ | ||||
| Genitive | Ῥωμαίου | Ῥωμαίᾱς | Ῥωμαίου | Ῥωμαίοιν | Ῥωμαίαιν | Ῥωμαίοιν | Ῥωμαίων | Ῥωμαίων | Ῥωμαίων | ||||
| Dative | Ῥωμαίῳ | Ῥωμαίᾳ | Ῥωμαίῳ | Ῥωμαίοιν | Ῥωμαίαιν | Ῥωμαίοιν | Ῥωμαίοις | Ῥωμαίαις | Ῥωμαίοις | ||||
| Accusative | Ῥωμαῖον | Ῥωμαίᾱν | Ῥωμαῖον | Ῥωμαίω | Ῥωμαίᾱ | Ῥωμαίω | Ῥωμαίους | Ῥωμαίᾱς | Ῥωμαῖᾰ | ||||
| Vocative | Ῥωμαῖε | Ῥωμαίᾱ | Ῥωμαῖον | Ῥωμαίω | Ῥωμαίᾱ | Ῥωμαίω | Ῥωμαῖοι | Ῥώμαιαι | Ῥωμαῖᾰ | ||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| Ῥωμαίως | Ῥωμαιότερος | Ῥωμαιότᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Noun
Ῥωμαῖος • (Rhōmaîos) m (genitive Ῥωμαίου); second declension
- a Roman
- an inhabitant of Rome
- a citizen of the Roman Republic or the Roman Empire
- (in the Byzantine Empire) a citizen of the Byzantine Empire
- a Roman Christian
- (in the Byzantine Empire, after the Great Schism) an Eastern Orthodox Christian
- (in Greek Christendom) a Greek
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Ῥωμαῖος | τὼ Ῥωμαίω | οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ῥωμαίου | τοῖν Ῥωμαίοιν | τῶν Ῥωμαίων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ῥωμαίῳ | τοῖν Ῥωμαίοιν | τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ῥωμαῖον | τὼ Ῥωμαίω | τοὺς Ῥωμαίους | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Ῥωμαῖε | Ῥωμαίω | Ῥωμαῖοι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Related terms
Descendants
- Greek: Ρωμαίος (Romaíos), Ρωμαίοι pl (Romaíoi)
- Latin: Rhomaeus, Rhomaei pl
- Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬𐭠𐭣𐭩𐭪 (Hrōmāy-īg)
- Old Armenian: հռովմայ-ական (hṙovmay-akan), հռովմայ-եցի (hṙovmay-ecʿi)
References
- Ῥωμαῖος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- «Ῥωμαῖος» 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
- “G4514”, 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.
- Rome idem, page 1024.