Rhenus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *Rēnos (Proto-Celtic *rēnos), built on Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.nus/, [ˈreːnʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.nus/, [ˈrɛːnus]

Proper noun

Rhēnus m sg (genitive Rhēnī); second declension

The river Rhine.
- Tacitus, Gemanica, chapter 1 (Oxford revised translation)
  Germania omnis a Gallis Rhaetisque et Pannoniis Rheno et Danubio fluminibus.
  Germany is separated from Gaul, Rhaetia, and Pannonia, by the rivers Rhine and Danube.
The river Reno in Italy.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Rhēnus
Genitive	Rhēnī
Dative	Rhēnō
Accusative	Rhēnum
Ablative	Rhēnō
Vocative	Rhēne

Derived terms

Related terms

Rhēnānia

Descendants

Italian: Reno
Old Occitan: Ren
- Catalan: Ren (archaic)
- Occitan: Ren
→ Polish: Ren
Romansch: Rain, Ragn, Rein

References

“Rhenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Rhenus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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