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ῥυμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥυμός ῥυμοῦ

Structure: ῥυμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: R(u/w e)ru/w

Sense

  1. the pole of a carriage, of the pole

Declension

Second declension

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 ὕστερον τὰ Περσικά, καὶ ἢ πεφραγμένων τῶν ἵππων ἢ ἀφράκτων, καὶ ἢ ἁπλοῦ τοῦ ῥυμοῦ ἢ διπλοῦ, τὰ καὶ πολύρρυμα. (Arrian, chapter 2 11:1)
  • μίαν δέ φασιν ἓξ ἄκρου ῥυμοῦ κρεμαμένην τὰ παιδία τῶν αὑτῆσ σφυρῶν ἀφημμένα βρόχοισ ἐκατέρωθεν ἠρτῆσθαι· (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 27 2:2)
  • Ἀριστόβουλοσ δὲ καί πάνυ λέγει ῥᾳδίαν αὐτῷ τὴν λύσιν γενέσθαι, ἐξελόντι τοῦ ῥυμοῦ τὸν ἕστορα καλούμενον, ᾧ συνείχετο τὸ ζυγόδεσμον, εἶθ’ οὕτωσ ὑφελκύσαντι τὸν ζυγόν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 18 2:1)
  • Ἀριστόβουλοσ δὲ λέγει ἐξελόντα τὸν ἕστορα τοῦ ῥυμοῦ, ὃσ ἦν τύλοσ διαβεβλημένοσ διὰ τοῦ ῥυμοῦ διαμπάξ, ξυνέχων τὸν δεσμόν, ἐξελκύσαι ἔξω τοῦ ῥυμοῦ τὸν ζυγόν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 3 7:3)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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