"ῥαχός" meaning in Ancient Greek

See ῥαχός in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /r̥aː.kʰós/, /raˈxos/, /raˈxos/, /r̥aː.kʰós/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /raˈkʰos/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /raˈxos/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /raˈxos/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /raˈxos/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: Clearly related to ῥᾰ́χις (rhắkhis, “spine, backbone”). Since ϝρᾰχ-/ϝρᾱχ- cannot be derived from an Indo-European root, the word might instead be of Pre-Greek origin. Etymology templates: {{der|grc|qsb-grc|-}} Pre-Greek Head templates: {{grc-noun|ῥᾱχός|ῥᾱχοῦ|f|second}} ῥᾱχός • (rhākhós) f (genitive ῥᾱχοῦ); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ῥᾱχός|οῦ|form=F}} Forms: ῥᾱχός [canonical], rhākhós [romanization], ῥᾱχοῦ [genitive], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ἡ ῥᾱχός [nominative, singular], ῥᾱχώ [dual, nominative], αἱ ῥᾱχοί [nominative, plural], τῆς ῥᾱχοῦ [genitive, singular], ῥᾱχοῖν [dual, genitive], ῥᾱχῶν [genitive, plural], τῇ ῥᾱχῷ [dative, singular], ῥᾱχοῖν [dative, dual], ταῖς ῥᾱχοῖς [dative, plural], τὴν ῥᾱχόν [accusative, singular], ῥᾱχώ [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς ῥᾱχούς [accusative, plural], ῥᾱχέ [singular, vocative], ῥᾱχώ [dual, vocative], ῥᾱχοί [plural, vocative], ῥηχός [alternative, Ionic]
  1. thorny bush, briar, brushwood
    Sense id: en-ῥαχός-grc-noun-Fx~Itv7r
  2. thorn-hedge, wattled fence, palisade
    Sense id: en-ῥαχός-grc-noun-47ICEgIF
  3. (botany) twig, branch of the vine
    Sense id: en-ῥαχός-grc-noun-Rgo-GrWD Categories (other): Botany, Olive family plants Disambiguation of Olive family plants: 3 14 52 31 Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  4. (at Troezen) wild olive tree (Olea europaea) Synonyms: ἄγριππος, κότινος
    Sense id: en-ῥαχός-grc-noun-4itXQMcd Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the second declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 10 19 27 45 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the second declension: 13 24 27 35 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 9 34 54 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 6 24 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: εὔρρηχος (eúrrhēkhos), ῥᾱχόω (rhākhóō), ῥηχώδης (rhēkhṓdēs)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.