παράταξις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From παρατάσσω (paratássō, “to place side by side”) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pa.rá.tak.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /paˈra.tak.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /paˈra.tak.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /paˈra.tak.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /paˈra.tak.sis/
Noun
πᾰρᾰ́τᾰξῐς • (parátaxis) f (genitive πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξεως); third declension
- a placing side by side
- marshaling, line of battle
- front rank of the phalanx
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ πᾰρᾰ́τᾰξῐς; τῆς πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πᾰρᾰ́τᾰξῐς hē parátaxis | τὼ πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξει tṑ paratáxei | αἱ πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξεις hai paratáxeis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξεως tês paratáxeōs | τοῖν πᾰρᾰτᾰξέοιν toîn parataxéoin | τῶν πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξεων tôn paratáxeōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξει têi paratáxei | τοῖν πᾰρᾰτᾰξέοιν toîn parataxéoin | ταῖς πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξεσῐ / πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξεσῐν taîs paratáxesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πᾰρᾰ́τᾰξῐν tḕn parátaxin | τὼ πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξει tṑ paratáxei | τᾱ̀ς πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξεις tā̀s paratáxeis | ||||||||||
Vocative | πᾰρᾰ́τᾰξῐ parátaxi | πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξει paratáxei | πᾰρᾰτᾰ́ξεις paratáxeis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → French: parataxe
- Greek: παράταξη (parátaxi)
Further reading
- “παράταξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “παράταξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- παράταξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- battle idem, page 65.
- formation idem, page 339.
- intrigue idem, page 455.
- line idem, page 492.
- marshalling idem, page 515.
- order idem, page 578.
- rank idem, page 671.