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ῥύγχος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥύγχος ῥύγχεος

Structure: ῥυγχο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: r(u/zw

Sense

snout, the nose of an animal, muzzle
beak of a bird

Declension

Third declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ῥύγχος	ῥύγχει	ῥύγχη
Genitive	ῥύγχους	ῥύγχοιν	ῥυγχέων
Dative	ῥύγχει	ῥύγχοιν	ῥύγχεσιν*
Accusative	ῥύγχος	ῥύγχει	ῥύγχη
Vocative	ῥύγχος	ῥύγχει	ῥύγχη

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

ποδῶν δὲ καὶ ὠτίων, ἔτι δὲ ῥύγχουσ Ἄλεξισ ἐν Κρατείᾳ ἢ Φαρμακοπώλῃ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 481)
ὅτι δεῖ γυναικὸσ ἐπιφερούσησ δακτύλουσ ἁπαλοὺσ ὑπ’ ἀκάνθησ μηδὲ ἓν τούτουσ παθεῖν ξιφίασ, τοῦτον Ἀριστοτέλησ φησὶν ἔχειν τοῦ ῥύγχουσ τὸ μὲν ὑποκάτω μικρόν, τὸ δὲ καθύπερθεν ὀστῶδεσ μέγα, ἴσον τῷ ὅλῳ αὐτοῦ μεγέθει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 95 4:1)
καὶ τὸν κύνα προσκαλεσάμενοσ καὶ ἐπιλαβόμενοσ τοῦ ῥύγχουσ εἰπεῖν· (Theophrastus, Characters, 9:3)
ἐνίουσ δ’ ὑπὸ προθυμίασ ἐν τῷ δήγματι διαστρέφεσθαι τοὺσ ὀφθαλμούσ, τοῖσ δὲ καὶ ἐκπίπτειν, κατασχεθῆναι δὲ καὶ λέοντα ὑπὸ κυνὸσ καὶ ταῦρον, τὸν δὲ ταῦρον καὶ ἀποθανεῖν κρατούμενον τοῦ ῥύγχουσ πρότερον ἢ ἀφεθῆναι. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 74:15)

Synonyms

snout
- ῥίς (nose, snout)
- μυκτήρ (the nose, snout, the nostrils)
beak of a bird
- ἀμπελίς (the bird)
- ὄρνεον (a bird)
- ὄρνις (bird)
- πετεινόν (a bird)

σφόνδυλος (vertebra)
ὁρμιά (a fishing-line of horsehair)
γλουτός (the rump)
μύραινα (a sea-serpent)
λαγαρός (slack)
πτῑ́λον (feather)
σίραιον (new wine)
σχιστός (cloven)
ἔντασις (tension)
νᾶπυ (mustard)
καρχαρόδων ()
καρχαρόδους (with sharp)
εὔπεπτος (easy of digestion)
λάβραξ (the bass)
τήκω (to melt)
κύανος (cyanus)
ἔγχελυς (eel)
κυρτός (curved)
στροβιλός (spinning)
κυλίω (to roll along)
τεῦτλον (beet)
καταγράφω (to scratch away)
κατάγραφος (embroidered)
μετάρσιος (raised form the ground)
σύρμα (anything trailed or dragged)
καρί̄ς (shrimp)
ὄρτυξ (quail)
νυκτερίς (a bat)
ὑπέρυθρος (somewhat red)
κόψιχος (a blackbird)

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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ῥύγχος

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beak of a bird

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ῥύγχος

Sense

Declension

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Synonyms

snout

beak of a bird

Related

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