ῥαχίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥάχις (rhákhis) +‎ -ίτης (-ítēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥a.kʰǐː.tɛːs/ → /raˈçi.tis/ → /raˈçi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥a.kʰǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /raˈkʰi.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /raˈçi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /raˈçi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /raˈçi.tis/

Adjective

ῥᾰχῑ́της • (rhakhī́tēs) m (feminine ῥᾰχῖτις, neuter —); first/third declension

1. in or of the spine

Declension

Masculine forms:

First declension of ὁ ῥᾰχῑ́της; τοῦ ῥᾰχῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥᾰχῑ́της ho rhakhī́tēs	τὼ ῥᾰχῑ́τᾱ tṑ rhakhī́tā	οἱ ῥᾰχῖται hoi rhakhîtai
Genitive	τοῦ ῥᾰχῑ́του toû rhakhī́tou	τοῖν ῥᾰχῑ́ταιν toîn rhakhī́tain	τῶν ῥᾰχῑτῶν tôn rhakhītôn
Dative	τῷ ῥᾰχῑ́τῃ tôi rhakhī́tēi	τοῖν ῥᾰχῑ́ταιν toîn rhakhī́tain	τοῖς ῥᾰχῑ́ταις toîs rhakhī́tais
Accusative	τὸν ῥᾰχῑ́την tòn rhakhī́tēn	τὼ ῥᾰχῑ́τᾱ tṑ rhakhī́tā	τοὺς ῥᾰχῑ́τᾱς toùs rhakhī́tās
Vocative	ῥᾰχῖτᾰ rhakhîta	ῥᾰχῑ́τᾱ rhakhī́tā	ῥᾰχῖται rhakhîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Feminine forms:

Third declension of ἡ ῥᾰχῖτῐς; τῆς ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥᾰχῖτῐς hē rhakhîtis	τὼ ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδε tṑ rhakhī́tide	αἱ ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδες hai rhakhī́tides
Genitive	τῆς ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδος tês rhakhī́tidos	τοῖν ῥᾰχῑτῐ́δοιν toîn rhakhītídoin	τῶν ῥᾰχῑτῐ́δων tôn rhakhītídōn
Dative	τῇ ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδῐ têi rhakhī́tidi	τοῖν ῥᾰχῑτῐ́δοιν toîn rhakhītídoin	ταῖς ῥᾰχῑ́τῐσῐ / ῥᾰχῑ́τῐσῐν taîs rhakhī́tisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn rhakhī́tida	τὼ ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδε tṑ rhakhī́tide	τᾱ̀ς ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s rhakhī́tidas
Vocative	ῥᾰχῖτῐς rhakhîtis	ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδε rhakhī́tide	ῥᾰχῑ́τῐδες rhakhī́tides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• New Latin: rachītis
  • → English: rachitis
  • Spanish: raquitis
• →⇒ French: rachitisme
  • → Turkish: raşitizm
• →⇒ Italian: rachitismo
• →⇒ Portuguese: raquitismo
• →⇒ Spanish: raquitismo

Further reading

• ῥαχίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ῥαχίτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ῥαχίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press