The corpus record

ῥᾰγάς

ragas · ἡ

fissure, chink, crevice, crack

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Where it lives

Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

fissure, chink, crevice, crack, chap, fistula, haemorrhoids

fissure in soil, Ephor. 65 (e) J.; chink, crevice, LXX Is. 7.19, AP 11.407 (Nicarch.), Zos.Alch. p.186 B.; crack or chap of the skin, Dsc. 1.72, cf. Sor. 1.60, Gal. 19.446, D.L. 1.81, EM 810.27; fistula and haemorrhoids, Gloss.

= σταφυλίς, ῥωγάς, Hsch.

III rima

= rima, γυναικεία φύσις, Gloss.

In the wild

ῥαγάδας · rhagadas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 662)
ῥαγάδα · rhagada Septuaginta, Isaias 7

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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