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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Koine Greek πρόληψις (prólēpsis, preconception) with -ση (-si) ending and semantic loan from French prévention, préjugé and prolepse.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾo.li.psi/
  • Hyphenation: πρό‧λη‧ψη

Noun

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πρόληψη (prólipsif (plural προλήψεις)

  1. prevention
    Synonym: αποτροπή f (apotropí)
    H πρόληψη είναι καλύτερη από τη θεραπεία.
    H prólipsi eínai kalýteri apó ti therapeía.
    Prevention is better than cure.
  2. superstition
    Near-synonym: δεισιδαιμονία f (deisidaimonía)
  3. (grammar) prolepsis (a construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond)
  4. (rhetoric) prolepsis, anticipation (the anticipation of an objection to an argument)

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ πρόληψη”, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998