ῥίζας (rhizas)

ῥίζας is an Ancient Greek form of ῥίζα, meaning “root”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.52: ἀμφί τε δυσπαλέας ῥίζας χθονός, οἷα γυναῖκες

Hippocrates, De fistulis 9: … τον ξυμμίσγων, καὶ καταπλάσσειν θερμόν. ἄλλο· τῆς ἀμπέλου τῆς ἀγρίης, ἣν ἔνιοι καλέουσι ψιλώθριον, ταύτης τὰς ῤίζας τὰς ἀπαλωτάτας περιξέσαντα ἑψῆσαι ἐν οἴνῳ μέλανι ἀκρήτῳ αὐστηρῷ·

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo 2.2·3: βραβύλων ἀγρίων Ῥίζας ἑψεῖν ἐν ὄξεϊ καὶ τρίψαντα ἐς μᾶζαν, παραμίσγειν Ῥοὸς, καὶ κόμμιος, καὶ μυρσίνης βραχύ. τῶνδε μέντοι γε ἄλλα …

All forms of ῥίζα (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.