Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ϝρῆξῐς ‎(wrêxis) Aeolic

  Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 149

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, VC 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, Flam. 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

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