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 • (pắprăx) 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 pắprăx	τὼ πᾰ́πρᾰκε tṑ pắprăke	οἱ πᾰ́πρᾰκες hoi pắprăkes
Genitive	τοῦ πᾰ́πρᾰκος toû pắprăkos	τοῖν πᾰπρᾰ́κοιν toîn păprắkoin	τῶν πᾰπρᾰ́κων tôn păprắkōn
Dative	τῷ πᾰ́πρᾰκῐ tôi pắprăkĭ	τοῖν πᾰπρᾰ́κοιν toîn păprắkoin	τοῖς πᾰ́πρᾰξῐ / πᾰ́πρᾰξῐν toîs pắprăxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν πᾰ́πρᾰκᾰ tòn pắprăkă	τὼ πᾰ́πρᾰκε tṑ pắprăke	τοὺς πᾰ́πρᾰκᾰς toùs pắprăkăs
Vocative	πᾰ́πρᾰξ pắprăx	πᾰ́πρᾰκε pắprăke	πᾰ́πρᾰκες pắprăkes
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)