πρᾶξις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prâːk.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈprak.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈprak.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈprak.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈprak.sis/
Noun
πρᾶξῐς • (prâxis) f (genitive πρᾱ́ξεως); third declension
- deed, action, activity
- business dealing
- success
- collection of debts, arrears
- business, office
- work, treatise
- magic spell
- (euphemistic) sexual intercourse
- conduct, practice
- state, condition
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πρᾶξῐς hē prâxis |
τὼ πρᾱ́ξει tṑ prā́xei |
αἱ πρᾱ́ξεις hai prā́xeis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πρᾱ́ξεως tês prā́xeōs |
τοῖν πρᾱξέοιν toîn prāxéoin |
τῶν πρᾱ́ξεων tôn prā́xeōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πρᾱ́ξει têi prā́xei |
τοῖν πρᾱξέοιν toîn prāxéoin |
ταῖς πρᾱ́ξεσῐ(ν) taîs prā́xesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πρᾶξῐν tḕn prâxin |
τὼ πρᾱ́ξει tṑ prā́xei |
τᾱ̀ς πρᾱ́ξεις tā̀s prā́xeis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πρᾶξῐ prâxi |
πρᾱ́ξει prā́xei |
πρᾱ́ξεις prā́xeis | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
Derived terms
- ἀνάπραξις (anápraxis)
- ἀντίπραξις (antípraxis)
- διάπραξις (diápraxis)
- εἴσπραξις (eíspraxis)
- ἔκπραξις (ékpraxis)
- ἔμπραξις (émpraxis)
- κατάπραξις (katápraxis)
- σύμπραξις (súmpraxis)
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- πρᾶξις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρᾶξις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πρᾶξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- πρᾶξις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4234 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- πρᾶξις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Fortune idem, page 1011.
- accomplishment idem, page 6.
- act idem, page 9.
- action idem, page 9.
- affair idem, page 16.
- behaviour idem, page 71.
- business idem, page 106.
- circumstance idem, page 133.
- commission idem, page 148.
- conduct idem, page 157.
- deed idem, page 202.
- demeanour idem, page 209.
- despatch idem, page 216.
- ethics idem, page 284.
- exaction idem, page 286.
- execution idem, page 290.
- extortion idem, page 297.
- fortune idem, page 340.
- fulfilment idem, page 348.
- morality idem, page 540.
- performance idem, page 607.
- perpetration idem, page 607.
- plight idem, page 621.
- proceeding idem, page 644.
- state idem, page 812.
- thing idem, page 867.
- transaction idem, page 888.
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