ῥαχίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥάχις (rhákhis) +‎ -ίτης (-ítēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥a.kʰǐː.tɛːs/ → /raˈçi.tis/ → /raˈçi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥a.kʰǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /raˈkʰi.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /raˈçi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /raˈçi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /raˈçi.tis/

Adjective

ῥᾰχῑ́της • (rhăkhī́tēs) m (feminine ῥᾰχῖτις, neuter —); first/third declension

1. in or of the spine

Declension

Masculine forms:

First declension of ὁ ῥᾰχῑ́της; τοῦ ῥᾰχῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥᾰχῑ́της ho rhăkhī́tēs	τὼ ῥᾰχῑ́τᾱ tṑ rhăkhī́tā	οἱ ῥᾰχῖται hoi rhăkhîtai
Genitive	τοῦ ῥᾰχῑ́του toû rhăkhī́tou	τοῖν ῥᾰχῑ́ταιν toîn rhăkhī́tain	τῶν ῥᾰχῑτῶν tôn rhăkhītôn
Dative	τῷ ῥᾰχῑ́τῃ tôi rhăkhī́tēi	τοῖν ῥᾰχῑ́ταιν toîn rhăkhī́tain	τοῖς ῥᾰχῑ́ταις toîs rhăkhī́tais
Accusative	τὸν ῥᾰχῑ́την tòn rhăkhī́tēn	τὼ ῥᾰχῑ́τᾱ tṑ rhăkhī́tā	τοὺς ῥᾰχῑ́τᾱς toùs rhăkhī́tās
Vocative	ῥᾰχῖτᾰ rhăkhîtă	ῥᾰχῑ́τᾱ rhăkhī́tā	ῥᾰχῖται rhăkhîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Feminine forms:

Third declension of ἡ ῥᾰχῖτῐς; τῆς ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥᾰχῖτῐς hē rhăkhîtĭs	τὼ ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδε tṑ rhăkhī́tĭde	αἱ ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδες hai rhăkhī́tĭdes
Genitive	τῆς ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδος tês rhăkhī́tĭdos	τοῖν ῥᾰχῑτῐ́δοιν toîn rhăkhītĭ́doin	τῶν ῥᾰχῑτῐ́δων tôn rhăkhītĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδῐ têi rhăkhī́tĭdĭ	τοῖν ῥᾰχῑτῐ́δοιν toîn rhăkhītĭ́doin	ταῖς ῥᾰχῑ́τῐσῐ / ῥᾰχῑ́τῐσῐν taîs rhăkhī́tĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn rhăkhī́tĭdă	τὼ ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδε tṑ rhăkhī́tĭde	τᾱ̀ς ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s rhăkhī́tĭdăs
Vocative	ῥᾰχῖτῐς rhăkhîtĭs	ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδε rhăkhī́tĭde	ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδες rhăkhī́tĭdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• New Latin: rachītis
  • → English: rachitis
  • Spanish: raquitis
• →⇒ French: rachitisme
  • → Turkish: raşitizm
• →⇒ Italian: rachitismo
• →⇒ Portuguese: raquitismo
• →⇒ Spanish: raquitismo

Further reading

• ῥαχίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ῥαχίτης, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ῥαχίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press