ῥοία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ǒi̯.aː/ → /ˈry.a/ → /ˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ǒi̯.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈry.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈry.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.a/

Noun

ῥοίᾱ • (rhoíā) f (genitive ῥοίᾱς); first declension

1. flow, flux

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῥοίᾱ; τῆς ῥοίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥοίᾱ hē rhoíā	τὼ ῥοίᾱ tṑ rhoíā	αἱ ῥοῖαι hai rhoîai
Genitive	τῆς ῥοίᾱς tês rhoíās	τοῖν ῥοίαιν toîn rhoíain	τῶν ῥοιῶν tôn rhoiôn
Dative	τῇ ῥοίᾳ tēî rhoíāi	τοῖν ῥοίαιν toîn rhoíain	ταῖς ῥοίαις taîs rhoíais
Accusative	τὴν ῥοίᾱν tḕn rhoíān	τὼ ῥοίᾱ tṑ rhoíā	τᾱ̀ς ῥοίᾱς tā̀s rhoíās
Vocative	ῥοίᾱ rhoíā	ῥοίᾱ rhoíā	ῥοῖαι rhoîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: -rrhea

References

• “ῥοία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥοία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette