πρός

See also: προς and προσ-

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• προτί (protí) — Epic
• πορτί (portí) — Cretan
• πρές (prés) — Aeolic
• πέρτι (pérti) — Pamphylian

Etymology

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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”).

Equivalent prepositions in use for πρός (prós) from another root are ποτί (potí) — Epic, Doric, ποί (poí) — Doric, πός (pós) — Arcadocypriot.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prós/ → /pros/ → /pros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pros/

Preposition

πρός • (prós) (governs the genitive, dative, and accusative)

1. (of direction) forward to, toward
   1. (with genitive) the side of, pertaining to
   2. (with dative) by the side of, near to
   3. (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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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