παράκλησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From παρακαλέω (parakaléō, “to summon, encourage”) (from παρά (pará, “near”) + καλέω (kaléō, “to call”)) + -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.rá.klɛː.sis/ → /paˈra.kli.sis/ → /paˈra.kli.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.rá.klɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paˈra.kle̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paˈra.kli.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈra.kli.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈra.kli.sis/

Noun

παράκλησις • (paráklēsis) f (genitive παρακλήσεως); third declension

1. a calling to one's aid, summons
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 143
   1. a calling upon, plea, imploring, appealing
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.61
      • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 13.1.1
2. an exhortation, address
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.92
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Demonicus 5
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 117
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 180
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.67.10
3. consolation
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Isaiah 30.7
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Nahum 3.7
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 6:18
   • Phalaris, Letters 103.1

Declension

Third declension of ἡ παράκλησῐς; τῆς παρακλήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ παράκλησῐς hē paráklēsis	τὼ παρακλήσει tṑ paraklḗsei	αἱ παρακλήσεις hai paraklḗseis
Genitive	τῆς παρακλήσεως tês paraklḗseōs	τοῖν παρακλησέοιν toîn paraklēséoin	τῶν παρακλήσεων tôn paraklḗseōn
Dative	τῇ παρακλήσει têi paraklḗsei	τοῖν παρακλησέοιν toîn paraklēséoin	ταῖς παρακλήσεσῐ / παρακλήσεσῐν taîs paraklḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν παράκλησῐν tḕn paráklēsin	τὼ παρακλήσει tṑ paraklḗsei	τᾱ̀ς παρακλήσεις tā̀s paraklḗseis
Vocative	παράκλησῐ paráklēsi	παρακλήσει paraklḗsei	παρακλήσεις paraklḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → French: paraclèse

Further reading

• “παράκλησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “παράκλησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• παράκλησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3874 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• παράκλησις 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.
  • adjuration idem, page 12.
  • appeal idem, page 34.
  • encouragement idem, page 271.
  • exhortation idem, page 292.
  • harangue idem, page 384.
  • incitement idem, page 428.
  • invitation idem, page 458.
  • stimulation idem, page 817.