πρόσληψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

προσλᾰμβᾰ́νω (proslambánō, “take or receive besides or in addition, get over and above”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /próz.lɛːp.sis/ → /ˈproz.lip.sis/ → /ˈproz.lip.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /próz.lɛːp.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈproz.le̝p.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈproz.lip.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈproz.lip.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈproz.lip.sis/

Noun

πρόσληψῐς • (próslēpsis) f (genitive προσλήψεως or προσλήψῐος); third declension

1. taking in addition
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 210a
   • 161 CE – 180 CE, Hermogenes, On Types of Style 1.11
     Hermogenes, On Types of Style 2.6
   • 117 CE – 181 CE, Aelius Aristides, Rh. 1.473
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 170.3
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 87.13
   1. acquisition
      • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 17.1.2
        Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.9.6
      • Anon., Trop. 23
   2. rise in rank by acquisition of catoecic land
      • PTeb. 61.254
   3. enrollment
      • PTheb.Bank 8.4
2. (logic, rhetoric) additional assumption
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 2.5.58b
   • 150 CE – 250 CE, Alexander of Aphrodisias, in APr. 378.14
   • Phlp., in APr. 416.24
   • Aps., Rh. p.288
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Conjunctions 250.18
   1. minor premise
      • Crinis, Stoic. 3.269
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.387c
      • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Conjunctions 250.21
      • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism 2.149
      • 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 7.82
3. (Christianity) assumption, reception (into the Kingdom of Heaven)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πρόσληψῐς; τῆς προσλήψεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρόσληψῐς hē próslēpsis	τὼ προσλήψει tṑ proslḗpsei	αἱ προσλήψεις hai proslḗpseis
Genitive	τῆς προσλήψεως tês proslḗpseōs	τοῖν προσληψέοιν toîn proslēpséoin	τῶν προσλήψεων tôn proslḗpseōn
Dative	τῇ προσλήψει têi proslḗpsei	τοῖν προσληψέοιν toîn proslēpséoin	ταῖς προσλήψεσῐ / προσλήψεσῐν taîs proslḗpsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πρόσληψῐν tḕn próslēpsin	τὼ προσλήψει tṑ proslḗpsei	τᾱ̀ς προσλήψεις tā̀s proslḗpseis
Vocative	πρόσληψῐ próslēpsi	προσλήψει proslḗpsei	προσλήψεις proslḗpseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: proslepsis

References

• “πρόσληψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πρόσληψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4356 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible