ἀράξα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.rák.sa/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈrak.sa/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈrak.sa/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈrak.sa/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈrak.sa/

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Noun

ἀράξα • (aráxa) f (genitive ἀράξης); first declension

A fabulous plant which grows by the river Araxes

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀρᾰ́ξᾰ; τῆς ἀρᾰ́ξης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀρᾰ́ξᾰ hē arắxă	τὼ ἀρᾰ́ξᾱ tṑ arắxā	αἱ ἀρᾰ́ξαι hai arắxai
Genitive	τῆς ἀρᾰ́ξης tês arắxēs	τοῖν ἀρᾰ́ξαιν toîn arắxain	τῶν ἀρᾰξῶν tôn arăxôn
Dative	τῇ ἀρᾰ́ξῃ têi arắxēi	τοῖν ἀρᾰ́ξαιν toîn arắxain	ταῖς ἀρᾰ́ξαις taîs arắxais
Accusative	τὴν ἀρᾰ́ξᾰν tḕn arắxăn	τὼ ἀρᾰ́ξᾱ tṑ arắxā	τᾱ̀ς ἀρᾰ́ξᾱς tā̀s arắxās
Vocative	ἀρᾰ́ξᾰ arắxă	ἀρᾰ́ξᾱ arắxā	ἀρᾰ́ξαι arắxai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

“ἀράξα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἀράξα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
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