ῥαγάς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῥήγνῡμι (rhḗgnūmi, “to break asunder, shatter”) + -ᾰ́ς (-ás).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥a.ɡás/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /raˈɡas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /raˈɣas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /raˈɣas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /raˈɣas/
Noun
ῥᾰγᾰ́ς • (rhagás) f (genitive ῥᾰγᾰ́δος); third declension
- fissure in soil, chink, crevice
- crack or chap of the skin
- (pathology) fistula and haemorrhoids
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῥᾰγᾰ́ς; τῆς ῥᾰγᾰ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥᾰγᾰ́ς hē rhagás | τὼ ῥᾰγᾰ́δε tṑ rhagáde | αἱ ῥᾰγᾰ́δες hai rhagádes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥᾰγᾰ́δος tês rhagádos | τοῖν ῥᾰγᾰ́δοιν toîn rhagádoin | τῶν ῥᾰγᾰ́δων tôn rhagádōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥᾰγᾰ́δῐ têi rhagádi | τοῖν ῥᾰγᾰ́δοιν toîn rhagádoin | ταῖς ῥᾰγᾰ́σῐ / ῥᾰγᾰ́σῐν taîs rhagási(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥᾰγᾰ́δᾰ tḕn rhagáda | τὼ ῥᾰγᾰ́δε tṑ rhagáde | τᾱ̀ς ῥᾰγᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s rhagádas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥᾰγᾰ́ς rhagás | ῥᾰγᾰ́δε rhagáde | ῥᾰγᾰ́δες rhagádes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ῥᾰγᾰ́δῐον (rhagádion)
Descendants
- Greek: ραγάδα (ragáda)
- → Latin: rhagades
- → English: rhagade
- → Italian: ragade
Further reading
- “ῥαγάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥαγάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥαγάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette