πρόσταξις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From προστάσσω (prostássō, “to place or post at a place”) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prós.tak.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpros.tak.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpros.tak.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpros.tak.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpros.tak.sis/
Noun
πρόστᾰξῐς • (próstaxis) f (genitive προστᾰ́ξεως); third declension
- posting of additional troops on the wings of a phalanx
- ordinance, command
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πρόστᾰξῐς hē próstaxis |
τὼ προστᾰ́ξει tṑ prostáxei |
αἱ προστᾰ́ξεις hai prostáxeis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς προστᾰ́ξεως tês prostáxeōs |
τοῖν προστᾰξέοιν toîn prostaxéoin |
τῶν προστᾰ́ξεων tôn prostáxeōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ προστᾰ́ξει têi prostáxei |
τοῖν προστᾰξέοιν toîn prostaxéoin |
ταῖς προστᾰ́ξεσῐ / προστᾰ́ξεσῐν taîs prostáxesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πρόστᾰξῐν tḕn próstaxin |
τὼ προστᾰ́ξει tṑ prostáxei |
τᾱ̀ς προστᾰ́ξεις tā̀s prostáxeis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πρόστᾰξῐ próstaxi |
προστᾰ́ξει prostáxei |
προστᾰ́ξεις prostáxeis | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- πρόσταξις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρόσταξις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πρόσταξις 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.
- assessment idem, page 45.
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