πρόσταξις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From προστάσσω (prostássō, “to place or post at a place”) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prós.tak.sis/ → /ˈpros.tak.sis/ → /ˈpros.tak.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prós.tak.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpros.tak.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpros.tak.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpros.tak.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpros.tak.sis/

Noun

πρόστᾰξῐς • (próstaxis) f (genitive προστᾰ́ξεως); third declension

1. posting of additional troops on the wings of a phalanx
2. ordinance, command

   Synonym: πρόσταγμα (próstagma)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πρόστᾰξῐς; τῆς προστᾰ́ξεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρόστᾰξῐς hē próstaxis	τὼ προστᾰ́ξει tṑ prostáxei	αἱ προστᾰ́ξεις hai prostáxeis
Genitive	τῆς προστᾰ́ξεως tês prostáxeōs	τοῖν προστᾰξέοιν toîn prostaxéoin	τῶν προστᾰ́ξεων tôn prostáxeōn
Dative	τῇ προστᾰ́ξει têi prostáxei	τοῖν προστᾰξέοιν toîn prostaxéoin	ταῖς προστᾰ́ξεσῐ / προστᾰ́ξεσῐν taîs prostáxesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πρόστᾰξῐν tḕn próstaxin	τὼ προστᾰ́ξει tṑ prostáxei	τᾱ̀ς προστᾰ́ξεις tā̀s prostáxeis
Vocative	πρόστᾰξῐ próstaxi	προστᾰ́ξει prostáxei	προστᾰ́ξεις prostáxeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: prostaxis

Further reading

• “πρόσταξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πρόσταξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πρόσταξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • assessment idem, page 45.