παράκλησις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From παρακαλέω (parakaléō, “to summon, encourage”) (from παρά (pará, “near”) + καλέω (kaléō, “to call”)) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pa.rá.klɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /paˈra.kle̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /paˈra.kli.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /paˈra.kli.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /paˈra.kli.sis/
Noun
παράκλησις • (paráklēsis) f (genitive παρακλήσεως); third declension
- a calling to one's aid, summons
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 143
- a calling upon, plea, imploring, appealing
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.61
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 13.1.1
- an exhortation, address
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.92
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Demonicus 5
- 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 117
- 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 180
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.67.10
- consolation
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Isaiah 30.7
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Nahum 3.7
- New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 6:18
- Phalaris, Letters 103.1
Declension
Third declension of ἡ παράκλησῐς; τῆς παρακλήσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ παράκλησῐς hē paráklēsis | τὼ παρακλήσει tṑ paraklḗsei | αἱ παρακλήσεις hai paraklḗseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς παρακλήσεως tês paraklḗseōs | τοῖν παρακλησέοιν toîn paraklēséoin | τῶν παρακλήσεων tôn paraklḗseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ παρακλήσει têi paraklḗsei | τοῖν παρακλησέοιν toîn paraklēséoin | ταῖς παρακλήσεσῐ / παρακλήσεσῐν taîs paraklḗsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν παράκλησῐν tḕn paráklēsin | τὼ παρακλήσει tṑ paraklḗsei | τᾱ̀ς παρακλήσεις tā̀s paraklḗseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | παράκλησῐ paráklēsi | παρακλήσει paraklḗsei | παρακλήσεις paraklḗseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → French: paraclèse
Further reading
- “παράκλησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “παράκλησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- παράκλησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3874 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- παράκλησις 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.
- adjuration idem, page 12.
- appeal idem, page 34.
- encouragement idem, page 271.
- exhortation idem, page 292.
- harangue idem, page 384.
- incitement idem, page 428.
- invitation idem, page 458.
- stimulation idem, page 817.