ῥινός

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *wer(H)- (“to cut (off), tear”), see also Sanskrit व्रण (vraṇá, “wound, tearing”), Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬭𐬀 (xᵛara, “wound, hurt”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥iː.nós/ → /riˈnos/ → /riˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥iː.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /riˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /riˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /riˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈnos/

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.

Second declension of ῥῑνός; ῥῑνοῦ (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ῥῑνός rhīnós	ῥῑνώ rhīnṓ	ῥῑνοί rhīnoí
Genitive	ῥῑνοῦ / ῥῑνοῖο / ῥῑνόο rhīnoû / rhīnoîo / rhīnóo	ῥῑνοῖῐν rhīnoîin	ῥῑνῶν rhīnôn
Dative	ῥῑνῷ rhīnôi	ῥῑνοῖῐν rhīnoîin	ῥῑνοῖσῐ / ῥῑνοῖσῐν / ῥῑνοῖς rhīnoîsi(n) / rhīnoîs
Accusative	ῥῑνόν rhīnón	ῥῑνώ rhīnṓ	ῥῑνούς rhīnoús
Vocative	ῥῑνέ rhīné	ῥῑνώ rhīnṓ	ῥῑνοί rhīnoí
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Alternative forms

• ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, “hide, shield”)

Derived terms

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 (sákos))
• 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”)
• ταλαύρῑνος (talaúrīnos)

 

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hide idem, page 398.
  • skin idem, page 781.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Illyrian. Possibly closely related to Albanian re／rê (“clouds, mist”), from Proto-Albanian *rina.

Noun

ῥινός • (rhinós) m

1. mist (in Illyrian)
   • [(Can we date this quote?) Scholion to Odyssey 5.281:

     ὁι δὲ λέγουσιν Ἰλλυριοὺς ῥινὸν λέγειν τὴν ἀχλύν

     hoi dè légousin Illurioùs rhinòn légein tḕn akhlún

     They say that the Illyrians call mist rhinós]