ῥάκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Clear morphological cognates lacking outside Greek. The traditional comparison with Sanskrit वृश्चति (vṛścati, “to hew, cleave”) is not accepted by Beekes. A connection with Proto-Indo-Iranian *wr̥ćšás (“tree”) is highly uncertain. The word could well be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥á.kos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈra.kos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈra.kos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈra.kos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈra.kos/

Noun

ῥάκος • (rhákos) n (genitive ῥάκεος); third declension

rag, tattered garment
Synonyms: λαῖφος (laîphos), τρῦχος (trûkhos)
strip of cloth
(in the plural) wrinkles, rents in the face
rag, remnant

Inflection

Third declension of ῥᾰ́κος; ῥᾰ́κεος (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ῥᾰ́κος rhákos	ῥᾰ́κει / ῥᾰ́κεε rhákei / rhákee	ῥᾰ́κεᾰ rhákea
Genitive	ῥᾰ́κεος / ῥᾰ́κευς rhákeos / rhákeus	ῥᾰκέοιν rhakéoin	ῥᾰκέων rhakéōn
Dative	ῥᾰ́κει / ῥᾰ́κεῐ̈ rhákei / rhákeï	ῥᾰκέοιν rhakéoin	ῥᾰ́κεσῐ / ῥᾰ́κεσῐν rhákesi(n)
Accusative	ῥᾰ́κος rhákos	ῥᾰ́κει / ῥᾰ́κεε rhákei / rhákee	ῥᾰ́κεᾰ rhákea
Vocative	ῥᾰ́κος rhákos	ῥᾰ́κει / ῥᾰ́κεε rhákei / rhákee	ῥᾰ́κεᾰ rhákea
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

ῥάκινος (rhákinos)
ῥάκιον (rhákion)
ῥακιοσυρραπτάδης (rhakiosurrhaptádēs)
ῥακοδύτης (rhakodútēs)
ῥακόδυτος (rhakódutos)
ῥακόεις (rhakóeis)
ῥακοφορέω (rhakophoréō)
ῥακόω (rhakóō)
ῥακώδης (rhakṓdēs)
ῥακωλέον (rhakōléon)
ῥάκωμα (rhákōma)
ῥάκωσις (rhákōsis)

References

“ῥάκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ῥάκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN