ῥαφίς
Ancient Greek
    
    Alternative forms
    
- ῥαπίς (rhapís) — Doric
 
Pronunciation
    
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥a.pʰís/
 - (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /raˈpʰis/
 - (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /raˈɸis/
 - (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /raˈfis/
 - (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /raˈfis/
 
Noun
    
ῥαφῐ́ς • (rhaphís) f (genitive ῥαφῐ́δος); third declension
- needle
- Synonym: βελόνη (belónē)
 
 - garfish, sea needle (Belone belone)
 
Declension
    
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ῥαφῐ́ς hē rhaphís  | 
τὼ ῥαφῐ́δε tṑ rhaphíde  | 
αἱ ῥαφῐ́δες hai rhaphídes  | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ῥαφῐ́δος tês rhaphídos  | 
τοῖν ῥαφῐ́δοιν toîn rhaphídoin  | 
τῶν ῥαφῐ́δων tôn rhaphídōn  | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ῥαφῐ́δῐ têi rhaphídi  | 
τοῖν ῥαφῐ́δοιν toîn rhaphídoin  | 
ταῖς ῥαφῐ́σῐ / ῥαφῐ́σῐν taîs rhaphísi(n)  | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ῥαφῐ́δᾰ tḕn rhaphída  | 
τὼ ῥαφῐ́δε tṑ rhaphíde  | 
τᾱ̀ς ῥαφῐ́δᾰς tā̀s rhaphídas  | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥαφῐ́ς rhaphís  | 
ῥαφῐ́δε rhaphíde  | 
ῥαφῐ́δες rhaphídes  | ||||||||||
| Notes: | 
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Derived terms
    
- ῥαφιδᾶς (rhaphidâs)
 - ῥαφίδεια (rhaphídeia)
 - ῥαφιδεύς (rhaphideús)
 - ῥαφιδευτής (rhaphideutḗs)
 - ῥαφιδευτός (rhaphideutós)
 - ῥαφιδοθήκη (rhaphidothḗkē)
 - ῥαφιδοποιός (rhaphidopoiós)
 
Descendants
    
- English: raphide
 - Translingual: Limnoraphis, Raphidiopsis
 
Further reading
    
- “ῥαφίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - “ῥαφίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
 - ῥαφίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
 
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