πάπραξ
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editHas been connected with πέρκη (pérkē, “perch”) and περκνός (perknós, “spotted”), or explained as onomatopoeic after the supposed sound of the fish. According to Beekes, the word may be of Pre-Greek origin, in view of the suffix.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pá.praks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpa.praks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.praks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.praks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpa.praks/
Noun
editπᾰ́πρᾰξ • (páprax) m (genitive πᾰ́πρᾰκος); third declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πᾰ́πρᾰξ ho páprax |
τὼ πᾰ́πρᾰκε tṑ páprake |
οἱ πᾰ́πρᾰκες hoi páprakes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πᾰ́πρᾰκος toû páprakos |
τοῖν πᾰπρᾰ́κοιν toîn paprákoin |
τῶν πᾰπρᾰ́κων tôn paprákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πᾰ́πρᾰκῐ tôi pápraki |
τοῖν πᾰπρᾰ́κοιν toîn paprákoin |
τοῖς πᾰ́πρᾰξῐ / πᾰ́πρᾰξῐν toîs pápraxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πᾰ́πρᾰκᾰ tòn pápraka |
τὼ πᾰ́πρᾰκε tṑ páprake |
τοὺς πᾰ́πρᾰκᾰς toùs páprakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πᾰ́πρᾰξ páprax |
πᾰ́πρᾰκε páprake |
πᾰ́πρᾰκες páprakes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
edit- “πάπραξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πάπραξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Paeonian
editNoun
editπάπραξ (páprax) m
- a kind of fish once found in the Thracian lake Prasias
- Herodotus, The Histories, 5.16
See also
edit- τίλων (tílōn)
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