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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Clearly related to ῥᾰ́χις (rhákhis, “spine, backbone”). Since ϝρᾰχ-/ϝρᾱχ- cannot be derived from an Indo-European root, the word might instead be of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥aː.kʰós/ → /raˈxos/ → /raˈxos/
Noun
ῥᾱχός • (rhākhós) f (genitive ῥᾱχοῦ); second declension
- thorny bush, briar, brushwood
- thorn-hedge, wattled fence, palisade
- (botany) twig, branch of the vine
- (at Troezen) wild olive tree (Olea europaea)
- Synonyms: ἄγριππος (ágrippos), κότινος (kótinos)
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Further reading
- “ῥαχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥαχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥαχός 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