ῥινός

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ῥῑνός • (rhīnós) f

  1. genitive singular of ῥῑ́ς (rhī́s)

Noun

ῥῑνός • (rhīnós) f (genitive ῥῑνοῦ); second declension

  1. (sense: skin)
    1. skin of a man or a beast
    2. leather
  2. (sense: hide)
    1. a hide of a beast
    2. shield

Inflection
Second declension of ἡ ῥῑνός; τῆς ῥῑνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ῥῑνός
hē rhīnós		 τὼ ῥῑνώ
tṑ rhīnṓ		 αἱ ῥῑνοί
hai rhīnoí
Genitive τῆς ῥῑνοῦ
tês rhīnoû		 τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν
toîn rhīnoîn		 τῶν ῥῑνῶν
tôn rhīnôn
Dative τῇ ῥῑνῷ
têi rhīnôi		 τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν
toîn rhīnoîn		 ταῖς ῥῑνοῖς
taîs rhīnoîs
Accusative τὴν ῥῑνόν
tḕn rhīnón		 τὼ ῥῑνώ
tṑ rhīnṓ		 τᾱ̀ς ῥῑνούς
tā̀s rhīnoús
Vocative ῥῑνέ
rhīné		 ῥῑνώ
rhīnṓ		 ῥῑνοί
rhīnoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Alternative forms
  • ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, “hide, shield”)

Not to be confused with similar words meaning nose from ῥῑ́ς (rhī́s)
or similar words meaning file, rasp from ἡ ῥίνη (rhínē)

  • εὔρῑνος (eúrīnos, “of good leather”), ἐΰρρῑνος (eǘrrhīnos) (Epic)
  • πολύρρῑνος (polúrrhīnos, “with many hides: of σάκος”)
  • ῥῑνόβατος m (rhīnóbatos, “a rough-skinned fish”)
  • ῥῑνοδέψης m (rhīnodépsēs, “leather-dresser”)
  • ῥῑνοκόλλητος (rhīnokóllētos, “made of glued hides”)
  • ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, “the hide”)
  • ῥῑνοπῠ́λη f (rhīnopúlē, “side-gate, wicket”)
  • ῥῑνοτόμος (rhīnotómos, “piercing shields”)
  • ῥῑνοτόρος (rhīnotóros, “hide-piercing, shield-piercing”)

References
  • ῥινός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ῥινός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ῥινός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ῥινός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • hide idem, page 398.
    • skin idem, page 781.
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