ῥίς

See also: ρις

Ancient Greek

Probably a Pre-Greek borrowing.^[1]

ῥῑ́ς • (rhī́s) f (genitive ῥῑνός); third declension

nose, snout
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.291
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.445
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.154
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 21
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 329d
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Hermotimus 68
  - 73
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 6.37
1. (in the plural) nostrils
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.503
    - 14.467
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.456
  - 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 267
  - 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 918
  - 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 344
  - 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 79e
(probably) brow of a hill, projecting spur of land
- 1 CE – 100 CE, Aretaeus, De Curatione Acutorum Morborum 1.2
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Lucius or The Ass 12
- 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Fasc. 11

Third declension of ἡ ῥῑ́ς; τῆς ῥῑνός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῑ́ς hē rhī́s	τὼ ῥῖνε tṑ rhîne	αἱ ῥῖνες hai rhînes
Genitive	τῆς ῥῑνός tês rhīnós	τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν toîn rhīnoîn	τῶν ῥῑνῶν tôn rhīnôn
Dative	τῇ ῥῑνῐ́ têi rhīní	τοῖν ῥῑνοῖν toîn rhīnoîn	ταῖς ῥῑσῐ́(ν) taîs rhīsí(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥῖνᾰ tḕn rhîna	τὼ ῥῖνε tṑ rhîne	τᾱ̀ς ῥῖνᾰς tā̀s rhînas
Vocative	ῥῑ́ς rhī́s	ῥῖνε rhîne	ῥῖνες rhînes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ῥίς, ῥῑνός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1288

ῥίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ῥίς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ῥίς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ῥίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ῥίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- nose idem, page 562.
- nostril idem, page 562.

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