ῥαχός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ῥηχός (rhēkhós) – Ionic
Etymology
Clearly related to ῥᾰ́χις (rhákhis, “spine, backbone”). Since ϝρᾰχ-/ϝρᾱχ- cannot be derived from an Indo-European root, the word might instead be of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥aː.kʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /raˈkʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /raˈxos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /raˈxos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /raˈxos/
Noun
ῥᾱχός • (rhākhós) f (genitive ῥᾱχοῦ); second declension
- thorny bush, briar, brushwood
- thorn-hedge, wattled fence, palisade
- (botany) twig, branch of the vine
- (at Troezen) wild olive tree (Olea europaea)
- Synonyms: ἄγριππος (ágrippos), κότινος (kótinos)
Inflection
Second declension of ἡ ῥᾱχός; τῆς ῥᾱχοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥᾱχός hē rhākhós | τὼ ῥᾱχώ tṑ rhākhṓ | αἱ ῥᾱχοί hai rhākhoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥᾱχοῦ tês rhākhoû | τοῖν ῥᾱχοῖν toîn rhākhoîn | τῶν ῥᾱχῶν tôn rhākhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥᾱχῷ têi rhākhôi | τοῖν ῥᾱχοῖν toîn rhākhoîn | ταῖς ῥᾱχοῖς taîs rhākhoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥᾱχόν tḕn rhākhón | τὼ ῥᾱχώ tṑ rhākhṓ | τᾱ̀ς ῥᾱχούς tā̀s rhākhoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥᾱχέ rhākhé | ῥᾱχώ rhākhṓ | ῥᾱχοί rhākhoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- εὔρρηχος (eúrrhēkhos)
- ῥᾱχόω (rhākhóō)
- ῥηχώδης (rhēkhṓdēs)
Further reading
- “ῥαχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥαχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥαχός 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