# ῥέω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ῥείω (rheíō) — Epic

### Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *hréyyō, from Proto-Indo-European *sréwyeti, from *srew- (“to flow, stream”). Cognates include Sanskrit स्रवति (srávati), Old Church Slavonic строуꙗ (struja, “stream”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /r̥é.ɔː/ → /ˈre.o/ → /ˈre.o/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /r̥é.ɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈre.o/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈre.o/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈre.o/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈre.o/

### Verb

ῥέω • (rhéō)
* to flow, stream, run, gush
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 527
** 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 5.9.4
** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 142
** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1602
** 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 449
** 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 995
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.140
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.300
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.86
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.149
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.70
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.204
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 59
** 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 7.5.8
** 5th century BC, Telecleides 1.4
** (figuratively)
*** 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Fragments 2
*** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 557
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 347a.34
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 136
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 39.97
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.249
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.159
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Brutus 31
*** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 259
** to fall off, drop off
*** Babr. 88.14
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Fr. 29
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.393
*** 320 CE – 403 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 5.27.1
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 87d
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 12.4.14
*** 300 CE – 500 CE, Stobaeus, Anthology 4.51.28
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 2.89
*** Geoponica 9.12
** (of molten objects) to liquefy, run
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 383b.6
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 698
*** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Stones 9
** to be in perpetual flux
*** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 439c
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 182c
*** Comica Adespota 200
** (of persons) to be inclined to, given to
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, On the Peace 5
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 485d
** to leak
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Fragments 554
*** 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Girl from Samos 248
*** 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 8.50.7
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.782e
** to have a flux (diarrhea-causing disease)
*** 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 5.41
** (impersonal)
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 1.19
* (transitive, rare) to let flow, pour
** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 528
* (transitive, with cognate accusative) to let run
** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 287
** Ezek., Exag. 133
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, A True Story 1.7
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Joel 3.18
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 5.124

#### Inflection

This verb does not contract ε with η, ο, or ω.

#### Derived terms

* ἀγάρροος (agárrhoos)
* ἀγχίρροος (ankhírrhoos)
* ἀείροος (aeíroos)
* αἱμόρροος (haimórrhoos)
* ἀκᾰλάρροος (akălárrhoos)
* ἀνᾰρρέω (anărrhéō)
* ἀντῐρρέω (antĭrrhéō)
* ἀπορρέω (aporrhéō)
* ἀψόρροος (apsórrhoos)
* βᾰθύρροος (băthúrrhoos)
* δακρύρροος (dakrúrrhoos)
* δῐᾰρρέω (dĭărrhéō)
* δύσροος (dúsroos)
* εἴσροος (eísroos)
* ἐκρέω (ekréō)
* ἑλῐκορροος (helĭkorrhoos)
* ἐπῐρρέω (epĭrrhéō)
* ἑπτάρροος (heptárrhoos)
* εὔροος (eúroos)
* ἐϋρρεής (eürrheḗs)
* ἰχθῠόρροος (ikhthŭórrhoos)
* καλλίρροος (kallírrhoos)
* κᾰτᾰρρέω (kătărrhéō)
* μᾰλίρροος (mălírrhoos)
* μελίρροος (melírrhoos)
* μετᾰρρέω (metărrhéō)
* μυξόρροος (muxórrhoos)
* πᾰρᾰρρέω (părărrhéō)
* περιρρέω (perirrhéō)
* πλᾰτύρροος (plătúrrhoos)
* πνευμᾰτόρροος (pneumătórrhoos)
* πολύρροος (polúrrhoos)
* ῥευστᾰλέος (rheustăléos)
* ῥῠηφενής (rhŭēphenḗs)
* συρρέω (surrhéō)
* τᾰχύρροος (tăkhúrrhoos)
* ὑδρόρροος (hudrórrhoos)
* ὑπερρέω (huperrhéō)
* ὑπορρέω (huporrhéō)
* χειμάρροος (kheimárrhoos)
* ὠκύροος (ōkúroos)

#### Related terms

* Ῥέᾱ (Rhéā)
* ῥεῖθρον (rheîthron)
* ῥειτά (rheitá)
* ῥέον (rhéon)
* ῥέος (rhéos)
* ῥεῦμᾰ (rheûmă)
* ῥεῦσῐς (rheûsĭs)
* ῥευστῐκός (rheustĭkós)
* ῥευστός (rheustós)
* ῥοάς (rhoás)
* ῥοή (rhoḗ)
* ῥοίᾱ (rhoíā)
* ῥοϊκός (rhoïkós)
* ῥόος (rhóos)
* ῥοώδης (rhoṓdēs)
* ῥύαξ (rhúax)
* ῥῠάς (rhŭás)
* ῥύδην (rhúdēn)
* ῥύημᾰ (rhúēmă)
* ῥυθμός (rhuthmós)
* ῥῠΐσκομαι (rhŭḯskomai)
* ῥύμᾰ (rhúmă)
* ῥύσῐς (rhúsĭs)
* ῥῠτός (rhŭtós)
* ῥῠώδης (rhŭṓdēs)

#### Descendants

* Greek: ρέω (réo)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥέω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1281-2

### Further reading

* “ῥέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ῥέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ῥέω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ῥέω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* ῥέω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “ῥέω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G4482 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible