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τραχεῖα (tracheia)

τραχεῖα is an Ancient Greek form of τραχύς, meaning “rough, rugged”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.37: … ὶν ἀμύνασθαι, νὴ Δίʼ, εἶπεν, ἵνʼ ἡμῶν πυκτευόντων ἕκαστος ὑμῶν λέγῃ, εὖ Σώκρατες, εὖ Ξανθίππη. ἔλεγε συνεῖναι τραχείᾳ γυναικὶ καθάπερ οἱ ἱππικοὶ θυμοειδέσιν ἵπποις. ἀλλʼ ὡς ἐκεῖνοι, φησί, τούτων κρατήσαντες ῥᾳδίως τῶν ἄλλων περ …

Strabo, Geography 5.2.7: ̔η δὲ Κύρνος ὑπὸ τῶν Ῥωμαίων καλεῖται Κορσίκα. οἰκεῖται δὲ φαύλως τραχεῖά τε οὖσα καὶ τοῖς πλείστοις μέρεσι δύσβατος τελέως ὥστε τοὺς κατέχοντας τὰ ὄρη καὶ ἀπὸ λῃστηρίων ζῶντας ἀγριωτ …

All forms of τραχύς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.