πρᾶξις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πρῆξῐς (prêxis) — Epic, Ionic

Etymology

From πρᾱ́σσω (prā́ssō, “I do, practice”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prâːk.sis/ → /ˈprak.sis/ → /ˈprak.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prâːk.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈprak.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈprak.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈprak.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈprak.sis/

Noun

πρᾶξῐς • (prâxis) f (genitive πρᾱ́ξεως); third declension

1. deed, act, action, activity
2. business dealing
3. success
4. collection of debts, arrears
5. business, office
6. work, treatise
7. magic spell
8. (euphemistic) sexual intercourse
9. conduct, practice
10. state, condition

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πρᾶξῐς; τῆς πρᾱ́ξεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρᾶξῐς hē prâxis	τὼ πρᾱ́ξει tṑ prā́xei	αἱ πρᾱ́ξεις hai prā́xeis
Genitive	τῆς πρᾱ́ξεως tês prā́xeōs	τοῖν πρᾱξέοιν toîn prāxéoin	τῶν πρᾱ́ξεων tôn prā́xeōn
Dative	τῇ πρᾱ́ξει têi prā́xei	τοῖν πρᾱξέοιν toîn prāxéoin	ταῖς πρᾱ́ξεσῐ / πρᾱ́ξεσῐν taîs prā́xesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πρᾶξῐν tḕn prâxin	τὼ πρᾱ́ξει tṑ prā́xei	τᾱ̀ς πρᾱ́ξεις tā̀s prā́xeis
Vocative	πρᾶξῐ prâxi	πρᾱ́ξει prā́xei	πρᾱ́ξεις prā́xeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ᾱ̔ πρᾶξῐς; τᾶς πρᾱ́ξῐος (Doric)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ᾱ̔ πρᾶξῐς hā prâxis	τὼ πρᾱ́ξῐε tṑ prā́xie	ταὶ πρᾱ́ξῐες taì prā́xies
Genitive	τᾶς πρᾱ́ξῐος tâs prā́xios	τοῖν πρᾱξῐ́οιν toîn prāxíoin	τᾶν πρᾱξῐ́ων tân prāxíōn
Dative	τᾷ πρᾱ́ξῑ tâi prā́xī	τοῖν πρᾱξῐ́οιν toîn prāxíoin	ταῖς πρᾱξῐ́εσσῐ / πρᾱξῐ́εσσῐν taîs prāxíessi(n)
Accusative	τᾱ̀ν πρᾶξῐν tā̀n prâxin	τὼ πρᾱ́ξῐε tṑ prā́xie	τᾱ̀ς πρᾱ́ξῑς / πρᾱ́ξῐᾰς tā̀s prā́xīs / prā́xias
Vocative	πρᾶξῐ prâxi	πρᾱ́ξῐε prā́xie	πρᾱ́ξῐες prā́xies
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

• ἀνάπραξις (anápraxis)
• ἀντίπραξις (antípraxis)
• διάπραξις (diápraxis)
• εἴσπραξις (eíspraxis)
• ἔκπραξις (ékpraxis)
• ἔμπραξις (émpraxis)
• κατάπραξις (katápraxis)
• Πραξαγόρας (Praxagóras)
• Πράξανδρος (Práxandros)
• Πραξιθέα (Praxithéa)
• Πραξιτέλης (Praxitélēs)
• Πραξιφάνης (Praxiphánēs)
• σύμπραξις (súmpraxis)

 

Descendants

• Greek: πράξη (práxi)
• → Coptic: ⲡⲣⲁⲝⲓⲥ (praksis)
• → Czech: praxe
• → English: praxis
• → German: Praxis
• → Latin: prāxis
  • Italian: prassi
• → Macedonian: пракса (praksa)
• → Old Armenian: պրակ (prak)
  • Armenian: պրակ (prak)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пракса

  Latin script: praksa

• → Portuguese: práxis
• → Spanish: praxis
• → Swedish: praxis

See also

• θεωρία (theōría)
• ποίησις (poíēsis)
• πρᾶγμα (prâgma)
• πράκτωρ (práktōr)

Further reading

• “πρᾶξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πρᾶξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πρᾶξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “πρᾶξις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4234 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• πρᾶξις 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accomplishment idem, page 6.
  • act idem, page 9.
  • action idem, page 9.
  • affair idem, page 16.
  • behaviour idem, page 71.
  • business idem, page 106.
  • circumstance idem, page 133.
  • commission idem, page 148.
  • conduct idem, page 157.
  • deed idem, page 202.
  • demeanour idem, page 209.
  • despatch idem, page 216.
  • ethics idem, page 284.
  • exaction idem, page 286.
  • execution idem, page 290.
  • extortion idem, page 297.
  • fortune idem, page 340.
  • fulfilment idem, page 348.
  • morality idem, page 540.
  • performance idem, page 607.
  • perpetration idem, page 607.
  • plight idem, page 621.
  • proceeding idem, page 644.
  • state idem, page 812.
  • thing idem, page 867.
  • transaction idem, page 888.