ῥῖνα (rhina)

ῥῖνα is an Ancient Greek form of ῥίς, meaning “nose”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 66 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 3.4: ἐπεὶ δὲ αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν αἰκισάμενος ὁ Ζώπυρος καὶ τὴν ῥῖνα καὶ τὰ ὦτα περικόψας ἐξηπάτησε Βαβυλωνίους καὶ πιστευθεὶς ὑπʼ αὐτῶν παρέδωκε Δαρείῳ τὴν πόλιν, πολλάκις ὁ Δαρεῖος εἶπεν οὐκ ἂν ἐθελῆσαι λαβεῖν ἑκατὸν Βαβυλῶνας ἐπὶ τῷ μὴ Ζώπυρον ἔχειν ὁλόκληρον.

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 36.19: [ρῖνα πρὸς γάᾳ] [θεμένα] [κακάνθην]

Epictetus, Discourses 2.10.20: ὅρα δʼ εἰ ἐπὶ κερμάτιον πάντα ἀνάγεις, ὅτι οὐδʼ ὁ τὴν ῥῖνά σοι ἀπολλύων ἔσται βεβλαμμένος. — ναί, φησίν, κεκολόβωται γὰρ τὸ σῶμα.

All forms of ῥίς (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.