ῥόμιξα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Furnée, the word is from Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix -ιξα which is shared also by σόρνιξα (sórnixa, “rocket”). On the other hand, Liddell and Scott connect this word with Latin rumex (“sorrel”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ó.mik.sa/ → /ˈro.mik.sa/ → /ˈro.mik.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ó.mik.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈro.mik.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.mik.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.mik.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈro.mik.sa/

Noun

ῥόμιξα • (rhómixa)

1. Hesychius gives the definition as: εἶδος ἀκοντίου (eîdos akontíou, literally “kind of javelin”).

Further reading

• “ῥόμιξα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Hesychius' Lexicon: ρ