ῥοιάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥόα (rhóa, “pomegranate”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás). Not related to ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥oi̯.ás/ → /ryˈas/ → /riˈas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥oi̯.ás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ryˈas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ryˈas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ryˈas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈas/

Noun

ῥοιᾰ́ς • (rhoiás) f (genitive ῥοιᾰ́δος); third declension

1. corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῥοιᾰ́ς; τῆς ῥοιᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥοιᾰ́ς hē rhoiás	τὼ ῥοιᾰ́δε tṑ rhoiáde	αἱ ῥοιᾰ́δες hai rhoiádes
Genitive	τῆς ῥοιᾰ́δος tês rhoiádos	τοῖν ῥοιᾰ́δοιν toîn rhoiádoin	τῶν ῥοιᾰ́δων tôn rhoiádōn
Dative	τῇ ῥοιᾰ́δῐ têi rhoiádi	τοῖν ῥοιᾰ́δοιν toîn rhoiádoin	ταῖς ῥοιᾰ́σῐ / ῥοιᾰ́σῐν taîs rhoiási(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥοιᾰ́δᾰ tḕn rhoiáda	τὼ ῥοιᾰ́δε tṑ rhoiáde	τᾱ̀ς ῥοιᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s rhoiádas
Vocative	ῥοιᾰ́ς rhoiás	ῥοιᾰ́δε rhoiáde	ῥοιᾰ́δες rhoiádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: rhoeas

Further reading

• “ῥοιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥοιάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN