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ῥόμβος
ῥόμβος
See also: ρόμβος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ῥύμβος (rhúmbos) Attic
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
- type of tambourine
- ****
- a spinning motion
- (geometry) rhombus
- type of fish including the turbot and brill
- (medicine) a surgeon's bandage
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ῥόμβος | τὼ ῥόμβω | οἱ ῥόμβοι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥόμβου | τοῖν ῥόμβοιν | τῶν ῥόμβων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥόμβῳ | τοῖν ῥόμβοιν | τοῖς ῥόμβοις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ῥόμβον | τὼ ῥόμβω | τοὺς ῥόμβους | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥόμβε | ῥόμβω | ῥόμβοι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- ῥομβοειδής (rhomboeidḗs)
Descendants
- Russian: ромб m (romb)
References
- 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