φράσις
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]May be for *φράστις, from the stem of φράζω (phrázō), *φραδ-, + Proto-Indo-European *-tis. Note the derivation φραστικός (phrastikós) and similar derivations from this stem.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰrá.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰra.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸra.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfra.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfra.sis/
Noun
[edit]φρᾰ́σῐς • (phrásis) f (genitive φρᾰ́σεως); third declension
- speech
- way of speaking, expression
- expression, idiom, phrase
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ φρᾰ́σῐς hē phrásis |
τὼ φρᾰ́σει tṑ phrásei |
αἱ φρᾰ́σεις hai phráseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς φρᾰ́σεως tês phráseōs |
τοῖν φρᾰσέοιν toîn phraséoin |
τῶν φρᾰ́σεων tôn phráseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ φρᾰ́σει têi phrásei |
τοῖν φρᾰσέοιν toîn phraséoin |
ταῖς φρᾰ́σεσῐ / φρᾰ́σεσῐν taîs phrásesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν φρᾰ́σῐν tḕn phrásin |
τὼ φρᾰ́σει tṑ phrásei |
τᾱ̀ς φρᾰ́σεις tā̀s phráseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | φρᾰ́σῐ phrási |
φρᾰ́σει phrásei |
φρᾰ́σεις phráseis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- φραστικός (phrastikós)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φράζομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1588
Further reading
[edit]- “φράσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φράσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φράσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette