πρόληψις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From προλαμβάνω (prolambánō) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pró.lɛːp.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpro.le̝p.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.lip.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.lip.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpro.lip.sis/
Noun
πρόληψῐς • (prólēpsis) f (genitive προλήψεως); third declension
- preconception, mental picture
- taking beforehand
- (rhetoric) anticipation
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ πρόληψῐς; τῆς προλήψεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πρόληψῐς hē prólēpsis | τὼ προλήψει tṑ prolḗpsei | αἱ προλήψεις hai prolḗpseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς προλήψεως tês prolḗpseōs | τοῖν προληψέοιν toîn prolēpséoin | τῶν προλήψεων tôn prolḗpseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ προλήψει têi prolḗpsei | τοῖν προληψέοιν toîn prolēpséoin | ταῖς προλήψεσῐ / προλήψεσῐν taîs prolḗpsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πρόληψῐν tḕn prólēpsin | τὼ προλήψει tṑ prolḗpsei | τᾱ̀ς προλήψεις tā̀s prolḗpseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | πρόληψῐ prólēpsi | προλήψει prolḗpsei | προλήψεις prolḗpseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: prolepsis
- → French: prolepse
References
- “πρόληψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρόληψις 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