πρώξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Ancient Greek περκνός (perknós, “dusky”) and Proto-Germanic *farwō (“colour”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prɔ̌ːks/ → /proks/ → /proks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prɔ̌ːks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /proks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /proks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /proks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /proks/

Noun

πρώξ • (prṓx) f (genitive πρωκός); third declension

1. (in the plural) dewdrop

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πρώξ; τῆς πρωκός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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 prōkĭ́	τοῖν πρωκοῖν toîn prōkoîn	ταῖς πρωξῐ́ / πρωξῐ́ν taîs prōxĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὴν πρῶκᾰ tḕn prôkă	τὼ πρῶκε tṑ prôke	τᾱ̀ς πρῶκᾰς tā̀s prôkăs
Vocative	πρώξ prṓx	πρῶκε prôke	πρῶκες prôkes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “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