ῥάξ
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editThe word is a reminiscent of ῥάματα (rhámata, “bunch of grapes”), as well as of Latin racēmus (“bunch of grapes”), Sanskrit रजनी (rajanī, “grape, lac”), Persian رز (raz, “vine”) and Albanian rrush (“grape”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ǎːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /raks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /raks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /raks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /raks/
Noun
editῥᾱ́ξ • (rhā́x) f (genitive ῥᾱγός); third declension
- (botany) grape
- (botany) berry
- malmignatte (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus)
- Synonym: φαλάγγιον (phalángion)
- (in the plural) fingertips
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥᾱ́ξ hē rhā́x |
τὼ ῥᾶγε tṑ rhâge |
αἱ ῥᾶγες hai rhâges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥᾱγός tês rhāgós |
τοῖν ῥᾱγοῖν toîn rhāgoîn |
τῶν ῥᾱγῶν tôn rhāgôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥᾱγῐ́ têi rhāgí |
τοῖν ῥᾱγοῖν toîn rhāgoîn |
ταῖς ῥᾱξῐ́ / ῥᾱξῐ́ν taîs rhāxí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥᾶγᾰ tḕn rhâga |
τὼ ῥᾶγε tṑ rhâge |
τᾱ̀ς ῥᾶγᾰς tā̀s rhâgas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥᾱ́ξ rhā́x |
ῥᾶγε rhâge |
ῥᾶγες rhâges | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Greek: ρώγα (róga)
Further reading
edit- “ῥάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥάξ 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
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- Ancient Greek 1-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
- grc:Botany
- grc:Grapevines
- grc:Arachnids
- grc:Anatomy