ῥεῦμα

See also: ρεύμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *hréumə, likely inherited from Proto-Indo-European *sréwmn̥, from *srew- (“to flow”) +‎ *-mn̥; equivalent to ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”) +‎ -μα (-ma). Compare the related Proto-Indo-European *srówmos, whence also Old English stream. See also ῥυθμός (rhuthmós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥êu̯.ma/ → /ˈreβ.ma/ → /ˈrev.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥êu̯.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈrew.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈreβ.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈrev.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈrev.ma/

Noun

ῥεῦμᾰ • (rheûma) n (genitive ῥεύμᾰτος); third declension

1. stream, flow, current

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῥεῦμᾰ tò rheûma	τὼ ῥεύμᾰτε tṑ rheúmate	τᾰ̀ ῥεύμᾰτᾰ tà rheúmata
Genitive	τοῦ ῥεύμᾰτος toû rheúmatos	τοῖν ῥευμᾰ́τοιν toîn rheumátoin	τῶν ῥευμᾰ́των tôn rheumátōn
Dative	τῷ ῥεύμᾰτῐ tôi rheúmati	τοῖν ῥευμᾰ́τοιν toîn rheumátoin	τοῖς ῥεύμᾰσῐ / ῥεύμᾰσῐν toîs rheúmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῥεῦμᾰ tò rheûma	τὼ ῥεύμᾰτε tṑ rheúmate	τᾰ̀ ῥεύμᾰτᾰ tà rheúmata
Vocative	ῥεῦμᾰ rheûma	ῥεύμᾰτε rheúmate	ῥεύμᾰτᾰ rheúmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ ῥεῦμᾰ; τοῦ ῥεύμᾰτος (Attic)

Derived terms

• ῥευμᾰτῐκός (rheumatikós)
• ῥευμᾰτῐσμός (rheumatismós)

Descendants

• Greek: ρέμα (réma) , ρεύμα (révma)
• → Latin: rheuma (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ῥεῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥεῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥεῦμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beck idem, page 68.
  • brook idem, page 101.
  • channel idem, page 124.
  • current idem, page 190.
  • flood idem, page 329.
  • flow idem, page 329.
  • jet idem, page 463.
  • rill idem, page 715.
  • river idem, page 718.
  • stream idem, page 824.
  • tide idem, page 873.