πρόξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Ancient Greek περκνός (perknós, “dusky”) and Proto-Germanic *farwō (“colour”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /próks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /proks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /proks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /proks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /proks/
Noun
πρόξ • (próx) f (genitive προκός); third declension
- roe deer
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ πρόξ; τῆς προκός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πρόξ hē próx | τὼ πρόκε tṑ próke | αἱ πρόκες hai prókes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς προκός tês prokós | τοῖν προκοῖν toîn prokoîn | τῶν προκῶν tôn prokôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ προκῐ́ têi prokí | τοῖν προκοῖν toîn prokoîn | ταῖς προξῐ́ / προξῐ́ν taîs proxí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πρόκᾰ tḕn próka | τὼ πρόκε tṑ próke | τᾱ̀ς πρόκᾰς tā̀s prókas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πρόξ próx | πρόκε próke | πρόκες prókes | ||||||||||
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References
- πρόξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρόξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill