ῥάκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Clear morphological cognates lacking outside Greek. The traditional comparison with Sanskrit वृश्चति (vṛścati, “to hew, cleave”) is not accepted by Beekes. A connection with Proto-Indo-Iranian *wr̥ćšás (“tree”) is highly uncertain. The word could well be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥á.kos/ → /ˈra.kos/ → /ˈra.kos/

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

Noun

ῥάκος • (rhákos) n (genitive ῥάκεος); third declension

1. rag, tattered garment

   Synonyms: λαῖφος (laîphos), τρῦχος (trûkhos)

2. strip of cloth
3. (in the plural) wrinkles, rents in the face
4. rag, remnant

Inflection

Third declension of ῥᾰ́κος; ῥᾰ́κεος (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ῥᾰ́κος rhákos	ῥᾰ́κει / ῥᾰ́κεε rhákei / rhákee	ῥᾰ́κεᾰ rhákea
Genitive	ῥᾰ́κεος / ῥᾰ́κευς rhákeos / rhákeus	ῥᾰκέοιν rhakéoin	ῥᾰκέων rhakéōn
Dative	ῥᾰ́κει / ῥᾰ́κεῐ̈ rhákei / rhákeï	ῥᾰκέοιν rhakéoin	ῥᾰ́κεσῐ / ῥᾰ́κεσῐν rhákesi(n)
Accusative	ῥᾰ́κος rhákos	ῥᾰ́κει / ῥᾰ́κεε rhákei / rhákee	ῥᾰ́κεᾰ rhákea
Vocative	ῥᾰ́κος rhákos	ῥᾰ́κει / ῥᾰ́κεε rhákei / rhákee	ῥᾰ́κεᾰ rhákea
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

• ῥάκινος (rhákinos)
• ῥάκιον (rhákion)
• ῥακιοσυρραπτάδης (rhakiosurrhaptádēs)
• ῥακοδύτης (rhakodútēs)
• ῥακόδυτος (rhakódutos)
• ῥακόεις (rhakóeis)
• ῥακοφορέω (rhakophoréō)
• ῥακόω (rhakóō)
• ῥακώδης (rhakṓdēs)
• ῥακωλέον (rhakōléon)
• ῥάκωμα (rhákōma)
• ῥάκωσις (rhákōsis)

 

References

• “ῥάκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥάκος 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