φρόνησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φρονέω (phronéō, “to think”) +‎ -σις (-sis); the former from φρήν (phrḗn, “mind”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰró.nɛː.sis/ → /ˈɸro.ni.sis/ → /ˈfro.ni.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰró.nɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰro.ne̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸro.ni.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfro.ni.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfro.ni.sis/

Noun

φρόνησῐς • (phrónēsis) f (genitive φρονήσεως); third declension

1. prudence, practical wisdom

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ φρόνησῐς; τῆς φρονήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φρόνησῐς hē phrónēsis	τὼ φρονήσει tṑ phronḗsei	αἱ φρονήσεις hai phronḗseis
Genitive	τῆς φρονήσεως tês phronḗseōs	τοῖν φρονησέοιν toîn phronēséoin	τῶν φρονήσεων tôn phronḗseōn
Dative	τῇ φρονήσει têi phronḗsei	τοῖν φρονησέοιν toîn phronēséoin	ταῖς φρονήσεσῐ / φρονήσεσῐν taîs phronḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν φρόνησῐν tḕn phrónēsin	τὼ φρονήσει tṑ phronḗsei	τᾱ̀ς φρονήσεις tā̀s phronḗseis
Vocative	φρόνησῐ phrónēsi	φρονήσει phronḗsei	φρονήσεις phronḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

Related terms

• αὐτοφρόνησις (autophrónēsis)
• φιλοφρόνησις (philophrónēsis)
• καταφρόνησις (kataphrónēsis)
• περιφρόνησις (periphrónēsis)
• συμφρόνησις (sumphrónēsis)
• ὑπερφρόνησις (huperphrónēsis)

Descendants

• English: phronesis
• Greek: φρόνησις (frónisis), φρόνηση (frónisi)

Further reading

• “φρόνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φρόνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φρόνησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5428 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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