Trachites
Trachites asperitas rigor rigiditas.
Apparatus:
ABC f combine the previous entry Trachis with this entry into one.
Trachites (tra-B f) ABC f | Trachitis e
rigor ABC e | riges f
Translation:
Greek Trachites is in Latin asperitas {"harshness"}, rigor {"stiffness"} or rigiditas {"rigidity"}.
Commentary:
Greek τραχύτης /trachýtēs/, or Attic τραχυτής /trachytḗs/, means "roughness, ruggedness”.
In a full itacist pronunciation of the word one would expect the form /trakhitís/ - as shown in witness e. Latin speakers of Greek, however, did on the whole not pronounce the original sound represented by η {/ē/} as /i/ - like Greek speakers did - but pronounced it /e/, i.e. /trakhités/, the likely pronunciation indicated by the other witnesses.
WilfGunther 26/05/2014
