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ῥαχία?

First declension Noun; Transliteration: rhachia

Principal Part: ῥαχία

Etym.: ῥήγνυμι, cf. ῥηγμίν

Sense

  1. the sea breaking on the shore, the flood-tide
  2. a rocky shore or beach

Examples

  • κατὰ δὲ τὰς τοῦ ῥοῦ προσπτώσεις καὶ τὰς τῶν ἀνέμων μεταβολὰς ὁ κλύδων προσπίπτων τῇ ῥαχίᾳ καχλάζει καὶ τραχύνεται πάντῃ περὶ τὴν παρήκουσαν πέτραν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 44 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. the sea breaking on the shore

  2. a rocky shore or beach

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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