πάπραξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Has 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

 

• IPA^(key): /pá.praks/ → /ˈpa.praks/ → /ˈpa.praks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pá.praks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.praks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.praks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.praks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.praks/

Noun

πᾰ́πρᾰξ • (páprax) m (genitive πᾰ́πρᾰκος); third declension

1. Thracian lake-fish

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ πᾰ́πρᾰξ; τοῦ πᾰ́πρᾰκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “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

Noun

πάπραξ (páprax) m

1. a kind of fish once found in the Thracian lake Prasias
   • Herodotus, The Histories, 5.16

See also

• τίλων (tílōn)