χάραξ
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The formation is similar to κάμαξ (kámax) and πίναξ (pínax). The connection with Lithuanian žerti (“to scrape”) does not explain the Greek formation. In view of the suffix, the word is most probably Pre-Greek. See more details at χαράσσω.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰá.raks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰa.raks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈxa.raks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈxa.raks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈxa.raks/
Noun[edit]
χάραξ • (khárax) m or f (genitive χάρᾰκος); third declension
- pointed stake
- pole, vine prop
- Synonym: κάμαξ (kámax)
- pale used in fortifying the entrenchments of a camp
- palisade
- Synonym: σκόλοψ (skólops)
- cutting, slip
- a kind of bream of the genus Sargus
- name of a bandage
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ ho, hē khárax |
tṑ khárake |
hoi, hai khárakes | ||||||||||
Genitive | toû, tês khárakos |
toîn kharákoin |
tôn kharákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | tôi, têi kháraki |
toîn kharákoin |
toîs, taîs kháraxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | tòn, tḕn kháraka |
tṑ khárake |
toùs, tā̀s khárakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | khárax |
khárake |
khárakes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Greek: χάρακας (chárakas)
- →? Vulgar Latin: *characulum, *caraculum
Further reading[edit]
- “χάραξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χάραξ 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
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