"ῥίον" meaning in Ancient Greek

See ῥίον in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /r̥í.on/, /ˈri.on/, /ˈri.on/, /r̥í.on/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈri.on/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈri.on/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈri.on/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈri.on/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: The word is isolated within Hellenic and has no certain etymology. If it originally had an initial "ϝ-", it would recall βρία (bría, “town”) and perhaps also Tocharian B riye (“town”). The connections with Proto-Germanic *risiz (“giant”), Latin verrūca (“wart”), Proto-Slavic *vьrxъ (“top, peak”) and Sanskrit वर्ष्मन् (varṣman, “height, top”) are no better. As an alternative to all these problematic suggestions, Beekes considers the possibility that the word is of Pre-Greek origin. Attested in Mycenaean Greek as 𐀪𐀍 (ri-jo). Etymology templates: {{unk|grc|no certain etymology}} no certain etymology, {{cog|txb|riye||town}} Tocharian B riye (“town”), {{cog|gem-pro|*risiz||giant}} Proto-Germanic *risiz (“giant”), {{cog|la|verrūca||wart}} Latin verrūca (“wart”), {{cog|sla-pro|*vьrxъ||top, peak}} Proto-Slavic *vьrxъ (“top, peak”), {{cog|sa|वर्ष्मन्||height, top}} Sanskrit वर्ष्मन् (varṣman, “height, top”), {{der|grc|qsb-grc|-}} Pre-Greek, {{cog|gmy|-}} Mycenaean Greek Head templates: {{grc-noun|ῥίου|n|second}} ῥίον • (rhíon) n (genitive ῥίου); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ῥίον|ου}} Forms: rhíon [romanization], ῥίου [genitive], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], τὸ ῥῐ́ον [nominative, singular], ῥῐ́ω [dual, nominative], τᾰ̀ ῥῐ́ᾰ [nominative, plural], τοῦ ῥῐ́ου [genitive, singular], ῥῐ́οιν [dual, genitive], ῥῐ́ων [genitive, plural], τῷ ῥῐ́ῳ [dative, singular], ῥῐ́οιν [dative, dual], τοῖς ῥῐ́οις [dative, plural], τὸ ῥῐ́ον [accusative, singular], ῥῐ́ω [accusative, dual], τᾰ̀ ῥῐ́ᾰ [accusative, plural], ῥῐ́ον [singular, vocative], ῥῐ́ω [dual, vocative], ῥῐ́ᾰ [plural, vocative]
  1. peak, summit, any jutting part of a mountain
    Sense id: en-ῥίον-grc-noun-KtXk1KLZ Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Landforms Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 38 21 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 54 14 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 81 6 12 Disambiguation of Landforms: 85 8 7
  2. headland
    Sense id: en-ῥίον-grc-noun-gm7q~Mj0 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 38 21 41
  3. bay formed by a foreland
    Sense id: en-ῥίον-grc-noun-Xy7JGtdb Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 38 21 41 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension: 26 22 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Ῥίον (Rhíon)
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      "ipa": "/ˈri.on/"
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      "ipa": "/ˈri.on/"
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      "ipa": "/ˈri.on/",
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    }
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}
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      "glosses": [
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      "ipa": "/ˈri.on/"
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    },
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.