ῥάδιξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”). Compare ῥίζα (rhíza). Cognate with Latin rādīx (“root”), Latin rāmus (“branch”), Old Norse rót (“root”) (English root), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐍃 (waurts), Old English wyrt (“herb, plant”) (English wort), Old Irish fren (“root”), and possibly Tocharian B witsako (“root”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ǎː.diːks/ → /ˈra.ðiks/ → /ˈra.ðiks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ǎː.diːks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈra.diks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ðiks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ðiks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ðiks/

Noun

ῥᾱ́δῑξ • (rhā́dīx) m (genitive ῥᾱ́δῑκος); third declension

1. branch
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 378
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 533
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 57
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 331
2. (of palms) frond
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 2.53

Declension

Third declension of ὁ ῥᾱ́δῑξ; τοῦ ῥᾱ́δῑκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥᾱ́δῑξ ho rhā́dīx	τὼ ῥᾱ́δῑκε tṑ rhā́dīke	οἱ ῥᾱ́δῑκες hoi rhā́dīkes
Genitive	τοῦ ῥᾱ́δῑκος toû rhā́dīkos	τοῖν ῥᾱδῑ́κοιν toîn rhādī́koin	τῶν ῥᾱδῑ́κων tôn rhādī́kōn
Dative	τῷ ῥᾱ́δῑκῐ tôi rhā́dīkĭ	τοῖν ῥᾱδῑ́κοιν toîn rhādī́koin	τοῖς ῥᾱ́δῑξῐ / ῥᾱ́δῑξῐν toîs rhā́dīxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν ῥᾱ́δῑκᾰ tòn rhā́dīkă	τὼ ῥᾱ́δῑκε tṑ rhā́dīke	τοὺς ῥᾱ́δῑκᾰς toùs rhā́dīkăs
Vocative	ῥᾱ́δῑξ rhā́dīx	ῥᾱ́δῑκε rhā́dīke	ῥᾱ́δῑκες rhā́dīkes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ῥάδιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥάδιξ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥάδιξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette