πρόληψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From προλαμβάνω (prolambánō) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pró.lɛːp.sis/ → /ˈpro.lip.sis/ → /ˈpro.lip.sis/

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

Noun

πρόληψῐς • (prólēpsis) f (genitive προλήψεως); third declension

1. preconception, mental picture
2. taking beforehand
3. (rhetoric) anticipation

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πρόληψῐς; τῆς προλήψεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρόληψῐς hē prólēpsis	τὼ προλήψει tṑ prolḗpsei	αἱ προλήψεις hai prolḗpseis
Genitive	τῆς προλήψεως tês prolḗpseōs	τοῖν προληψέοιν toîn prolēpséoin	τῶν προλήψεων tôn prolḗpseōn
Dative	τῇ προλήψει têi prolḗpsei	τοῖν προληψέοιν toîn prolēpséoin	ταῖς προλήψεσῐ / προλήψεσῐν taîs prolḗpsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πρόληψῐν tḕn prólēpsin	τὼ προλήψει tṑ prolḗpsei	τᾱ̀ς προλήψεις tā̀s prolḗpseis
Vocative	πρόληψῐ prólēpsi	προλήψει prolḗpsei	προλήψεις prolḗpseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: prolepsis
• → French: prolepse
• → Greek: πρόληψη (prólipsi) (learned)

References

• “πρόληψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πρόληψις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften