ῥητός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wr̥h₁tós, from *werh₁- (“to speak, say”). Equivalent to εἴρω (eírō, “I say”) + -τός (-tós, verbal adjective suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɛː.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /re̝ˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /riˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /riˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /riˈtos/
Adjective
ῥητός • (rhētós) m (feminine ῥητή, neuter ῥητόν); first/second declension
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | ῥητός rhētós |
ῥητή rhētḗ |
ῥητόν rhētón |
ῥητώ rhētṓ |
ῥητᾱ́ rhētā́ |
ῥητώ rhētṓ |
ῥητοί rhētoí |
ῥηταί rhētaí |
ῥητᾰ́ rhētá | |||||
| Genitive | ῥητοῦ rhētoû |
ῥητῆς rhētês |
ῥητοῦ rhētoû |
ῥητοῖν rhētoîn |
ῥηταῖν rhētaîn |
ῥητοῖν rhētoîn |
ῥητῶν rhētôn |
ῥητῶν rhētôn |
ῥητῶν rhētôn | |||||
| Dative | ῥητῷ rhētôi |
ῥητῇ rhētêi |
ῥητῷ rhētôi |
ῥητοῖν rhētoîn |
ῥηταῖν rhētaîn |
ῥητοῖν rhētoîn |
ῥητοῖς rhētoîs |
ῥηταῖς rhētaîs |
ῥητοῖς rhētoîs | |||||
| Accusative | ῥητόν rhētón |
ῥητήν rhētḗn |
ῥητόν rhētón |
ῥητώ rhētṓ |
ῥητᾱ́ rhētā́ |
ῥητώ rhētṓ |
ῥητούς rhētoús |
ῥητᾱ́ς rhētā́s |
ῥητᾰ́ rhētá | |||||
| Vocative | ῥητέ rhēté |
ῥητή rhētḗ |
ῥητόν rhētón |
ῥητώ rhētṓ |
ῥητᾱ́ rhētā́ |
ῥητώ rhētṓ |
ῥητοί rhētoí |
ῥηταί rhētaí |
ῥητᾰ́ rhētá | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ῥητῶς rhētôs |
ῥητότερος rhētóteros |
ῥητότᾰτος rhētótatos | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Derived terms
- ἀναντίρρητος (anantírrhētos, “unopposed”)
- ἀπρόρρητος (aprórrhētos, “not foretold”)
- ἄρρητος (árrhētos, “unspoken”)
- ἀπρόσρητος (aprósrētos, “unaddressed”)
- δύσρητος (dúsrētos, “that should not be spoken”)
- ἐπίρρητος (epírrhētos, “infamous”)
- εὔρητος (eúrētos, “easy to tell”)
- παραρρητός (pararrhētós, “that can be moved by words”)
- πρόρρητος (prórrhētos, “proclaimed”)
Further reading
- “ῥητός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥητός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ῥητός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ῥητός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥητός”, 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.
- agreed upon idem, page 20.
- appoint idem, page 36.
- arrange idem, page 41.
- certain idem, page 122.
- communicable idem, page 149.
- divulge idem, page 244.
- expressible idem, page 296.
- mentionable idem, page 525.
- speakable idem, page 798.
- spoken idem, page 804.
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