ῥύσιον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ῥύτιον (rhútion) — Doric
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to tear, dig, burrow, gather”), the same root of ἐρύω (erúō, “to draw, drag, pull”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥y̌ː.si.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈry.si.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈry.si.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈry.si.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.si.on/
Noun
ῥῡ́σῐον • (rhū́sion) n (genitive ῥῡσῐ́ου); second declension
- surety, pledge
- property held as a compensation
- booty, prey, that which is dragged away
- reprisal, retaliation
- (in the plural) restitution, deliverance
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ῥῡ́σῐον tò rhū́sion |
τὼ ῥῡσῐ́ω tṑ rhūsíō |
τᾰ̀ ῥῡ́σῐᾰ tà rhū́sia | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥῡσῐ́ου toû rhūsíou |
τοῖν ῥῡσῐ́οιν toîn rhūsíoin |
τῶν ῥῡσῐ́ων tôn rhūsíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥῡσῐ́ῳ tôi rhūsíōi |
τοῖν ῥῡσῐ́οιν toîn rhūsíoin |
τοῖς ῥῡσῐ́οις toîs rhūsíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ῥῡ́σῐον tò rhū́sion |
τὼ ῥῡσῐ́ω tṑ rhūsíō |
τᾰ̀ ῥῡ́σῐᾰ tà rhū́sia | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥῡ́σῐον rhū́sion |
ῥῡσῐ́ω rhūsíō |
ῥῡ́σῐᾰ rhū́sia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- ῥυσιάζω (rhusiázō)
Further reading
- “ῥύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥύσιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥύσιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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