πρώξ
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Ancient Greek περκνός (perknós, “dusky”) and Proto-Germanic *farwō (“colour”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prɔ̌ːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /proks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /proks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /proks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /proks/
Noun edit
πρώξ • (prṓx) f (genitive πρωκός); third declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πρώξ hē prṓx |
τὼ πρῶκε tṑ prôke |
αἱ πρῶκες hai prôkes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πρωκός tês prōkós |
τοῖν πρωκοῖν toîn prōkoîn |
τῶν πρωκῶν tôn prōkôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πρωκῐ́ têi prōkí |
τοῖν πρωκοῖν toîn prōkoîn |
ταῖς πρωξῐ́ / πρωξῐ́ν taîs prōxí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πρῶκᾰ tḕn prôka |
τὼ πρῶκε tṑ prôke |
τᾱ̀ς πρῶκᾰς tā̀s prôkas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πρώξ prṓx |
πρῶκε prôke |
πρῶκες prôkes | ||||||||||
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References edit
- “πρώξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρώξ 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