ῥῆξις

Ancient Greek

ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmĭ, “break”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs)

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

breaking, bursting
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 4.78
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, 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
breaking forth
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 3.28
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Prognostics 7
discharge
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 5.15
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Epidemics 6.6.12
rent, cleft
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.935c
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Belopoeica 84.22

Third declension of ἡ ῥῆξῐς; τῆς ῥήξεως (Attic)

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

“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