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Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Koine Greek πρόληψις (prólēpsis, “preconception”) with -ση (-si) ending and semantic loan from French prévention, préjugé and prolepse.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾo.li.psi/
- Hyphenation: πρό‧λη‧ψη
Noun
πρόληψη • (prólipsi) f (plural προλήψεις)
- prevention
- Synonym: αποτροπή f (apotropí)
- superstition
- Near-synonym: δεισιδαιμονία f (deisidaimonía)
- (grammar) prolepsis (a construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond)
- (rhetoric) prolepsis, anticipation (the anticipation of an objection to an argument)
Declension
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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πρόληψη (prólipsi)
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προλήψεις (prolípseis)
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| genitive
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πρόληψης (prólipsis)
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προλήψεων (prolípseon)
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| accusative
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πρόληψη (prólipsi)
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προλήψεις (prolípseis)
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| vocative
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πρόληψη (prólipsi)
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προλήψεις (prolípseis)
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Older or formal genitive singular: προλήψεως (prolípseos)
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