ῥυτίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain, but undoubtedly related to ῥυσός (rhusós, “shrivelled”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥y.tís/ → /ryˈtis/ → /riˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥y.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ryˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ryˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ryˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈtis/

Noun

ῥῠτῐ́ς • (rhŭtĭ́s) f (genitive ῥῠτῐ́δος); third declension

1. a fold or pucker in the face, wrinkle
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 1051
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 190 E, 191 A

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ῥῠτῐ́ς; τῆς ῥῠτῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῠτῐ́ς hē rhŭtĭ́s	τὼ ῥῠτῐ́δε tṑ rhŭtĭ́de	αἱ ῥῠτῐ́δες hai rhŭtĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ῥῠτῐ́δος tês rhŭtĭ́dos	τοῖν ῥῠτῐ́δοιν toîn rhŭtĭ́doin	τῶν ῥῠτῐ́δων tôn rhŭtĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ῥῠτῐ́δῐ tēî rhŭtĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ῥῠτῐ́δοιν toîn rhŭtĭ́doin	ταῖς ῥῠτῐ́σῐ / ῥῠτῐ́σῐν taîs rhŭtĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥῠτῐ́δᾰ tḕn rhŭtĭ́dă	τὼ ῥῠτῐ́δε tṑ rhŭtĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ῥῠτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s rhŭtĭ́dăs
Vocative	ῥῠτῐ́ς rhŭtĭ́s	ῥῠτῐ́δε rhŭtĭ́de	ῥῠτῐ́δες rhŭtĭ́des
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

• → English: rhytid
• Greek: ρυτίδα (rytída)

Further reading

• “ῥυτίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥυτίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥυτίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4512 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • furrow idem, page 350.
  • line idem, page 492.
  • pucker idem, page 656.
  • wrinkle idem, page 993.