ῥάκτρια

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥάκτριον (rháktrion)

Etymology

From ῥάσσω (rhássō, “to beat, smash, thrust”) +‎ -τρῐᾰ (-tria).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ák.tri.a/ → /ˈrak.tri.a/ → /ˈrak.tri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ák.tri.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈrak.tri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈrak.tri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈrak.tri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈrak.tri.a/

Noun

ῥᾰ́κτρῐᾰ • (rháktria) f (genitive ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. pole for beating fruit trees, especially olive trees

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῥᾰ́κτρῐᾰ; τῆς ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥᾰ́κτρῐᾰ hē rháktria	τὼ ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱ tṑ rhaktríā	αἱ ῥᾰ́κτρῐαι hai rháktriai
Genitive	τῆς ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱς tês rhaktríās	τοῖν ῥᾰκτρῐ́αιν toîn rhaktríain	τῶν ῥᾰκτρῐῶν tôn rhaktriôn
Dative	τῇ ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾳ têi rhaktríāi	τοῖν ῥᾰκτρῐ́αιν toîn rhaktríain	ταῖς ῥᾰκτρῐ́αις taîs rhaktríais
Accusative	τὴν ῥᾰ́κτρῐᾰν tḕn rháktrian	τὼ ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱ tṑ rhaktríā	τᾱ̀ς ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s rhaktríās
Vocative	ῥᾰ́κτρῐᾰ rháktria	ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱ rhaktríā	ῥᾰ́κτρῐαι rháktriai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ῥάκτρια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥάκτρια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette