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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

ὡσ δεῖ τώδ’ οἰμώζειν ἄμφω καὶ δοῦναι ῥύγχει φορβάν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antistrophe2)
ἔχει δὲ τὸ μὲν μέγεθοσ ὄρνιθοσ γενναίου, τὴν δὲ κεφαλὴν μικρὰν πρὸσ τὸ σῶμα καὶ ταύτην ψιλήν, ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ δὲ λόφον σάρκινον, σκληρόν, στρογγύλον, ἐξέχοντα τῆσ κεφαλῆσ ὥσπερ πάτταλον, καὶ τὸ χρῶμα ξυλοειδῆ,2 πρὸσ δὲ ταῖσ γνάθοισ ἀπὸ τοῦ στόματοσ ἀρξαμένην ἀντὶ πώγωνοσ μακρὰν σάρκα καὶ ἐρυθροτέραν τῶν ὀρνίθων, τὴν δὲ τοῖσ ὄρνισιν ἐπὶ τῷ ῥύγχει γινομένην, ἣν ἔνιοι πώγωνα καλοῦσιν, οὐκ ἔχει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 71 1:3)
γίνεται δὲ καὶ τριῶν σπιθαμῶν, τὸ δὲ χρῶμά ἐστιν ὑπέρυθροσ καὶ τῶν ὀδόντων τὸν μὲν κάτω ἐλάττονα ἔχει, τὸν δὲ ἄνω μείζονα, ἄμφω δὲ μέλανασ καὶ ὁμοίουσ ῥύγχει ἱέρακοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 130 1:6)
ὡσ δὲ συνῄεσαν ὁμόσε, κόραξ καθεζόμενοσ ἐπὶ τοῦ κράνουσ αὐτοῦ ἐκεκράγει τε δεινὸν εἰσ τὸν βάρβαρον ὁρῶν καί, ὁπότε μέλλοι πληγὴν ἐκφέρειν, πηδῶν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν τοτὲ μὲν τοῖσ ὄνυξιν ἤμυττε τὰσ παρειάσ, τοτὲ δὲ τῷ ῥύγχει τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ ἔκοπτεν, ὥστε τὸν Κελτὸν ἔξω γενέσθαι τῶν φρενῶν, οὔθ’ ὅπωσ τὸν ἄνδρα ἀμύνοιτο δυνάμενον συμβαλεῖν, οὔθ’ ὅπωσ τὸν κόρακα φυλάττοιτο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 15, chapter 1 1:1)

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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beak of a bird

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Sense

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snout

beak of a bird

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