Where does “ῥοπή” come from?

ῥοπή (Ancient Greek) comes from Ancient Greek ῥέπω, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

ῥοπή (Ancient Greek): inclination downwards; downward momentum

Definitions

  1. inclination downwards; downward momentum

Ancestry of “ῥοπή”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekῥέπωto incline one way or the other; to preponderate,...
2Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
3Proto-Hellenic*-os
4Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “ῥοπή

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ósEvery word from Ancient Greek -όςEvery word from Ancient Greek ῥέπω