ῥεῖα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

βρᾶ (brâ) – Aeolic
ῥᾶ (rhâ), ῥέα (rhéa)
ῥῆα (rhêa) – Epic

Etymology

From ῥᾶ (rhâ), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥êː.a/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈri.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈri.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈri.a/

Adverb

ῥεῖα • (rheîa)

(Epic) easily, lightly
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.138 :
  τῷ μὲν ἔπειτ’ ὀδύσαντο θεοὶ ῥεῖα ζώοντες, καί μιν τυφλὸν ἔθηκε Κρόνου πάϊς·
  tôi mèn épeit’ odúsanto theoì rheîa zṓontes, kaí min tuphlòn éthēke Krónou páïs;
  Translation by Theodore Alois Buckley
  With him the peaceful-living gods were afterwards enraged, and the son of Saturn rendered him blind.

Further reading

“ῥεῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ῥεῖα - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

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