a becoming ragged, wrinkled
a becoming ragged or wrinkled, of the skin, when the flesh under it is shrunk, Sor. 2.40, Zen. 6.42 (written ῥακίωσις in Diogenian. 8.70).
The corpus record
ῥᾰκ-ωσις
rakosis · ἡ
a becoming ragged
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What it meant — LSJ
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.