Ῥῆνος

See also: Ρήνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From a Gaulish *Rēnos (which was also the source of Proto-Germanic *Rīnaz). The Greek form is recorded in Strabo’s Geographica (1.4.3), written between 20 BC and AD 20, slightly later than the Latin equivalent Rhenus (Cicerio, In Pisonem, ca. 55 BCE).
The Gaulish name is from Proto-Celtic *rēnos, from the Proto-Indo-European root *rey- (“to flow”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ῥῆνος • (Rhênos) m (genitive Ῥήνου); second declension

  1. the river Rhine

Declension
Second declension of ὁ Ῥῆνος; τοῦ Ῥήνου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Ῥῆνος
ho Rhênos
Genitive τοῦ Ῥήνου
toû Rhḗnou
Dative τῷ Ῥήνῳ
tôi Rhḗnōi
Accusative τὸν Ῥῆνον
tòn Rhênon
Vocative Ῥῆνε
Rhêne
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Armenian: Հռենոս (Hṙenos)
  • Greek: Ρήνος (Rínos)

References
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024

Further reading
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