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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

  • ὥστε ἐκεῖνον μὲν αἱ ἀδελφαὶ θαπτέτωσαν ἐπὶ τῷ Ἠριδανῷ, ἵναπερ ἔπεσεν ἐκδιφρευθείσ, ἤλεκτρον ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ δακρύουσαι καὶ αἴγειροι γενέσθωσαν ἐπὶ τῷ πάθει, σὺ δὲ ξυμπηξάμενοσ τὸ ἁρ́μα ‐ κατέαγε δὲ καὶ ὁ ῥυμὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἅτεροσ τῶν τροχῶν συντέτριπται ‐ ἔλαυνε ὑπαγαγὼν τοὺσ ἵππουσ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 5:3)
  • τοῦ δ’ ἐξ ἀργύρεοσ ῥυμὸσ πέλεν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 76:7)
  • αἳ δέ οἱ ἵπποι ἀμφὶσ ὁδοῦ δραμέτην, ῥυμὸσ δ’ ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἐλύσθη. (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 35:3)
  • πολλοὶ μὲν δὴ συγκατακαίονται τοῖσι μάντισι βόεσ, πολλοὶ δὲ περικεκαυμένοι ἀποφεύγουσι, ἐπεὰν αὐτῶν ὁ ῥυμὸσ κατακαυθῇ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 69 2:1)

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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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