ῥάξ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ῥώξ (rhṓx) – Ionic

Etymology

The word is a reminiscent of ῥάματα (rhámata, “bunch of grapes”), as well as of Latin racēmus (“bunch of grapes”), Persian ‎ (raz, “vine”) and Albanian rrush (“grape”). It is probably a Pre-Greek word

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ǎːks/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /r̥aks/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /raks/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /raks/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /raks/

Noun

ῥᾱ́ξ • (rhā́x) f (genitive ῥᾱγός); third declension

(botany) grape
(botany) berry
malmignatte, a venomous kind of spider
(in the plural) fingertips

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ῥᾱ́ξ; τῆς ῥᾱγός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ῥαγίζω (rhagízō)
ῥαγικός (rhagikós)
ῥαγίον (rhagíon)
ῥαγοειδής (rhagoeidḗs)
ῥαγώδης (rhagṓdēs)

Descendants

Greek: ρώγα (róga)

References

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

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