ῥοῦ (rhou)

ῥοῦ is an Ancient Greek form of ῥόος, meaning “stream, current”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.54.1: … τῇ ἠπείρῳ Συβότοις· οἱ δὲ Κερκυραῖοι τά τε ναυάγια καὶ νεκροὺς ἀνείλοντο τὰ κατὰ σφᾶς ἐξενεχθέντα ὑπό τε τοῦ ῥοῦ καὶ ἀνέμου, ὃς γενόμενος τῆς νυκτὸς διεσκέδασεν αὐτὰ πανταχῇ, καὶ τροπαῖον ἀντέστησαν ἐν τοῖς ἐν τῇ νήσῳ Συβό …

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 2.11: … ὶ ὑστέρη ἀγαθὴ μὲν ἐς κάθαρσιν καὶ τόκον, ξυμφορὴ δὲ νούσων μυρίων τε καὶ κακῶν. οὐ γὰρ ἑλκέων ἢ φλεγμασίης ἢ Ῥοῦ μοῦνον, ἀλλὰ κἢν ἐξαπίνης ὅλη ἄνω κινέηται, ὠκέως κτείνει. γεγράφαται μὲν οὖν ἐν ἄλλοισι, ὁκοῖα τῶν ἀπʼ αὐτέη …

All forms of ῥόος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.