πρός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- προτί (protí) – Epic
- ποτί (potí) – Epic, Doric
- ποί (poí) – Doric
- πορτί (portí) – Cretan
- πός (pós) – Arcadocypriot
- πρές (prés) – Aeolic
- πέρτι (pérti) – Pamphylian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti. Cognates include Sanskrit प्रति (práti), Latin pretium, and Old Church Slavonic противъ (protivŭ). May be related to πρό (pró, “before”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pros/
Preposition
πρός • (prós) (governs the genitive, dative, and accusative)
- (of direction) forward to, toward
- (with genitive) the side of, pertaining to
- (with dative) by the side of, near to
- (with accusative) the place, time, occasion, or respect, which is the destination of the relation, or whither or for which it is predicated: about, according to, against, among, at, because of, before, between, ([where-]) by, for, at someone's house, in, for intent, nigh unto, of, which pertain to, that, to (the end that), together, to ([you]) -ward, unto, with (-in)
Descendants
- Greek: προς (pros)
References
- πρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πρός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- πρός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4314 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- πρός 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
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