προαίρεσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From προαιρέομαι (proairéomai) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pro.ǎi̯.re.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /proˈɛ.rɛ.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /proˈɛ.re.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /proˈe.re.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /proˈe.re.sis/
Noun
προαίρεσῐς • (proaíresis) f (genitive προαιρέσεως); third declension
- a choice
- an end, a goal, a purpose, a resolution
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ προαίρεσῐς hē proaíresis |
τὼ προαιρέσει tṑ proairései |
αἱ προαιρέσεις hai proairéseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς προαιρέσεως tês proairéseōs |
τοῖν προαιρεσέοιν toîn proaireséoin |
τῶν προαιρέσεων tôn proairéseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ προαιρέσει têi proairései |
τοῖν προαιρεσέοιν toîn proaireséoin |
ταῖς προαιρέσεσῐ / προαιρέσεσῐν taîs proairésesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν προαίρεσῐν tḕn proaíresin |
τὼ προαιρέσει tṑ proairései |
τᾱ̀ς προαιρέσεις tā̀s proairéseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | προαίρεσῐ proaíresi |
προαιρέσει proairései |
προαιρέσεις proairéseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: προαίρεση (proaíresi)
Further reading
- προαίρεσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- προαίρεσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- προαίρεσις 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.
- aim idem, page 21.
- bent idem, page 74.
- course idem, page 178.
- deliberate idem, page 207.
- department idem, page 211.
- design idem, page 215.
- drift idem, page 252.
- end idem, page 272.
- goal idem, page 365.
- guiding idem, page 378.
- ideal idem, page 413.
- line idem, page 492.
- measure idem, page 520.
- mission idem, page 535.
- motive idem, page 542.
- object idem, page 565.
- policy idem, page 624.
- principle idem, page 641.
- proceeding idem, page 644.
- process idem, page 644.
- programme idem, page 653.
- project idem, page 653.
- propaganda idem, page 653.
- purpose idem, page 659.
- range idem, page 670.
- scope idem, page 740.
- sphere idem, page 801.
- step idem, page 815.
- system idem, page 851.
- tenor idem, page 862.
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