Praxiteles

English
The Aphrodite of Cnidus, one of Praxiteles’ most famous sculptures.

Etymology

From the Latin Prāxitelēs, from the Ancient Greek Πρᾱξῐτέλης (Prāxitélēs).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɹakˈsɪtɪliːz/

Proper noun

Praxiteles

  1. The most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC, and the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue.
  2. A crater on the planet Mercury measuring 182 km in diameter.
  3. A main-belt asteroid discovered in 1973.

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Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Πρᾱξῐτέλης (Prāxitélēs).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Prāxitelēs m (genitive Prāxitelis); third declension

  1. Praxiteles (a celebrated Greek sculptor)

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular
Nominative Prāxitelēs
Genitive Prāxitelis
Dative Prāxitelī
Accusative Prāxitelem
Ablative Prāxitele
Vocative Prāxitelēs
  • Prāxitelīus

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