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ῥόμβος
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See also: ρόμβος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ῥύμβος (rhúmbos) — Attic
Etymology
From ῥέμβω (rhémbō, “I turn”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥óm.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈrom.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈrom.bos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈrom.bos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈrom.bos/
Noun
ῥόμβος • (rhómbos) m (genitive ῥόμβου); second declension
- (religion) bullroarer, an instrument whirled on the end of a string
- anything which may be turned or spun
- top (toy)
- magical wheel used by magicians
- (music) type of tambourine
- penis
- a spinning motion
- (geometry) rhombus
- type of fish including the turbot and brill
- (medicine) a surgeon's bandage
Declension
Derived terms
- ῥομβοειδής (rhomboeidḗs)
Descendants
Further reading
- “ῥόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥόμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ῥόμβος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
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