ῥάκτρια

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥάκτριον (rháktrion)

Etymology

From ῥάσσω (rhássō, “to beat, smash, thrust”) +‎ -τρῐᾰ (-trĭă).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ák.tri.a/ → /ˈrak.tri.a/ → /ˈrak.tri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ák.tri.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈrak.tri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈrak.tri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈrak.tri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈrak.tri.a/

Noun

ῥᾰ́κτρῐᾰ • (rhắktrĭă) f (genitive ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. pole for beating fruit trees, especially olive trees

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῥᾰ́κτρῐᾰ; τῆς ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥᾰ́κτρῐᾰ hē rhắktrĭă	τὼ ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱ tṑ rhăktrĭ́ā	αἱ ῥᾰ́κτρῐαι hai rhắktrĭai
Genitive	τῆς ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱς tês rhăktrĭ́ās	τοῖν ῥᾰκτρῐ́αιν toîn rhăktrĭ́ain	τῶν ῥᾰκτρῐῶν tôn rhăktrĭôn
Dative	τῇ ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾳ têi rhăktrĭ́āi	τοῖν ῥᾰκτρῐ́αιν toîn rhăktrĭ́ain	ταῖς ῥᾰκτρῐ́αις taîs rhăktrĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ῥᾰ́κτρῐᾰν tḕn rhắktrĭăn	τὼ ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱ tṑ rhăktrĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s rhăktrĭ́ās
Vocative	ῥᾰ́κτρῐᾰ rhắktrĭă	ῥᾰκτρῐ́ᾱ rhăktrĭ́ā	ῥᾰ́κτρῐαι rhắktrĭai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ῥάκτρια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥάκτρια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette