ῥῖνας (rhinas)

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

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.56: … ς βροτούς, ὅσοι θεοῖς ἔθυον, οὐ μοῦνον ἐσχάρης ὕπερ βωμῶν τε καὶ τραπέζης κνίσῃ, λίπει, θυλήμασιν θεῶν ἔδαισε ῥῖνας· οὐδʼ εἶπε μοῦνον, Ἤλιτον, σύγγνωτε τοῖς πρίν· ἀλλὰ καὶ γραῒ δῶκεν εὐμαρῶς τράχηλον εἰς ἐπῳδὴν καὶ σκυτίσιν β …

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 3.13·6: … τηρίας οὐκ ἀπορεῖς ἐναλλὰξ ποτὲ μὲν εἴσω παραγούσης εἰς τὸν πνεύμονα τὸ πνεῦμα, ποτὲ δʼ ἔξω, καὶ τῶν κατὰ τὰς Ῥῖνας πόρων καὶ ὅλου τοῦ στόματος ὡσαύτως οὐδʼ εἶναί σοι δοκεῖ θαυμαστὸν οὐδὲ παράδοξον, εἰ, διʼ οὗ μικρῷ πρόσθεν ε …

Hippocrates, De diaeta in morbis acutis 18: … αὶ ἄκοπον· μαλθακτικὸν γὰρ καὶ ἄρθρων καὶ τοῦ ἐπιπολαίου δέρματος· καὶ οὐρητικὸν δὲ, καὶ καρηβαρίην λύει, καὶ ῤῖνας ὑγραίνει. ἀγαθὰ μὲν οὖν λουτρῷ τοσαῦτα πάρεστιν, ὧν πάντων δεῖ·

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.