ῥινόκερως Ancient Greek · revision 3221

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=2nd century BC, Callixenus|origins=grc ῥίς, grc κέρας}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (4th-century AD Koine): /riˈno.ce.ros/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (10th-century Byzantine): /riˈno.ce.ros/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ῥῑνόκερως''' (rhīnókerōs) ''m'' (genitive ῥῑνοκέρωτος); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|grc|ῥίς|κέρας|tr1=rhī́s|tr2=kéras|t1=nose|t2=horn]]: “nose-horn”.^(Wiktionary)^(LSJ 1940)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest example is in Callixenus, who describes a procession of animals at Alexandria.^(LSJ 1940)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Strabo and Aelian describe the animal, and an inscription from Praeneste labels it.^(LSJ 1940) In the 2nd century AD Aquila used it in his translation of the Bible for the wild ox of Job and the Psalms.^(LSJ 1940) Hesychius knows it also as the name of a bird in Ethiopia, perhaps the hornbill.^(Hesychius)^(LSJ 1940) A late text speaks of “rhinoceros stone”, its horn.^(LSJ 1940)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd century BC – Callixenus mentions the rhinoceros.^(LSJ 1940)

+ * 1st century BC – 1st century AD – Strabo describes it.^(LSJ 1940)

+ * 2nd century AD – Aquila uses it for the wild ox of the Bible.^(LSJ 1940)

+ * 2nd–3rd century AD – Aelian describes it.^(LSJ 1940)

+ * 5th century AD (probably) – Hesychius also gives it as a bird of Ethiopia.^(Hesychius)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|rhinoceros]].^(LSJ 1940)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Aquila)'' A wild ox.^(LSJ 1940)

+ # A bird of Ethiopia, perhaps the [[m|en|hornbill]].^(Hesychius)^(LSJ 1940)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ῥίς|tr=rhī́s]]

+ * [[κέρας|tr=kéras]]

+ * [[en|rhinoceros]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}