ῥῆξις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ϝρῆξῐς (wrêxis) — Aeolic

  Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 149

Etymology

ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmi, “break”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ːk.sis/ → /ˈrik.sis/ → /ˈrik.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɛ̂ːk.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈre̝k.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈrik.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈrik.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈrik.sis/

Noun

ῥῆξῐς • (rhêxis) f (genitive ῥήξεως or ῥήξῐος); third declension

1. breaking, bursting
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 4.78
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Injuries of the Head 12
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Anger p.28 W.
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1256
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Universe 394b17
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Titus Flamininus 10
2. breaking forth
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 3.28
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prognostics 7
3. discharge
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 5.15
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 6.6.12
4. rent, cleft
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.935c
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Belopoeica 84.22

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῥῆξῐς; τῆς ῥήξεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῆξῐς hē rhêxis	τὼ ῥήξει tṑ rhḗxei	αἱ ῥήξεις hai rhḗxeis
Genitive	τῆς ῥήξεως tês rhḗxeōs	τοῖν ῥηξέοιν toîn rhēxéoin	τῶν ῥήξεων tôn rhḗxeōn
Dative	τῇ ῥήξει têi rhḗxei	τοῖν ῥηξέοιν toîn rhēxéoin	ταῖς ῥήξεσῐ / ῥήξεσῐν taîs rhḗxesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῥῆξῐν tḕn rhêxin	τὼ ῥήξει tṑ rhḗxei	τᾱ̀ς ῥήξεις tā̀s rhḗxeis
Vocative	ῥῆξῐ rhêxi	ῥήξει rhḗxei	ῥήξεις rhḗxeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: rhēxis
  • Middle English: rixis
    • English: rhexis

References

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