ῥαγάς

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 18 May 2024

Etymology

From ῥήγνῡμι (rhḗgnūmi, “to break asunder, shatter”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥a.ɡás/ → /raˈɣas/ → /raˈɣas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥a.ɡás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /raˈɡas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /raˈɣas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /raˈɣas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /raˈɣas/

Noun

ῥᾰγᾰ́ς • (rhagás) f (genitive ῥᾰγᾰ́δος); third declension

1. fissure in soil, chink, crevice
2. crack or chap of the skin
3. (pathology) fistula and haemorrhoids

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῥᾰγᾰ́ς; τῆς ῥᾰγᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥᾰγᾰ́ς hē rhagás	τὼ ῥᾰγᾰ́δε tṑ rhagáde	αἱ ῥᾰγᾰ́δες hai rhagádes
Genitive	τῆς ῥᾰγᾰ́δος tês rhagádos	τοῖν ῥᾰγᾰ́δοιν toîn rhagádoin	τῶν ῥᾰγᾰ́δων tôn rhagádōn
Dative	τῇ ῥᾰγᾰ́δῐ têi rhagádi	τοῖν ῥᾰγᾰ́δοιν toîn rhagádoin	ταῖς ῥᾰγᾰ́σῐ / ῥᾰγᾰ́σῐν taîs rhagási(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥᾰγᾰ́δᾰ tḕn rhagáda	τὼ ῥᾰγᾰ́δε tṑ rhagáde	τᾱ̀ς ῥᾰγᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s rhagádas
Vocative	ῥᾰγᾰ́ς rhagás	ῥᾰγᾰ́δε rhagáde	ῥᾰγᾰ́δες rhagádes
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.

Derived terms

• ῥᾰγᾰ́δῐον (rhagádion)

Descendants

• Greek: ραγάδα (ragáda)
• → Latin: rhagades
  • → English: rhagade
  • → Italian: ragade

Further reading

• “ῥαγάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥαγάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥαγάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette