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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From προαιρέομαι (proairéomai) + -σις (-sis). From < προ + αἵρεσις = taking, choice.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pro.ǎi̯.re.sis/ → /proˈɛ.re.sis/ → /proˈe.re.sis/
Noun
προαίρεσῐς • (proaíresis) f (genitive προαιρέσεως); third declension
- a choice, preference
- an end, a goal, a purpose, a resolution
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “προαίρεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “προαίρεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- προαίρεσις 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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