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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes of Pre-Greek origin or related to Lithuanian ražis (“stubble”). Compare ῥαχός (rhakhós, “thorn hedge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥á.kʰis/ → /ˈra.çis/ → /ˈra.çis/
Noun
ῥάχῐς • (rhákhis) f (genitive ῥάχῐος or ῥάχεως); third declension
- chine, lower part of the back
- (anatomy) spine or backbone
- anything ridged like a backbone:
- ridge of a hill or mountain
- bridge of the nose
- (botany) midrib of a leaf
- sharp projection on the middle of the shoulder blade
- outer edge of the arm of the polypus
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Further reading
- “ῥάχις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥάχις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥάχις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥάχις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ῥάχις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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