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”), Sanskrit रजनी (rajanī, “grape, lac”), Persian رز (raz, “vine”) and Albanian rrush (“grape”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ǎːks/ → /raks/ → /raks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ǎːks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /raks/
• (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

1. (botany) grape
2. (botany) berry
3. malmignatte (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus)

   Synonym: φαλάγγιον (phalángion)

4. (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)

Further reading

• “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