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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From προ- (pro-) + ῥῆσις (rhêsis)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prór̥.r̥ɛː.sis/ → /ˈpror.ri.sis/ → /ˈpro.ri.sis/
Noun
πρόρρησῐς • (prórrhēsis) f (genitive προρρήσεως); third declension
- foretelling, prediction, previous instruction or warning
- public notice, proclamation
Declension
Further reading
- Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “πρόρρησις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “πρόρρησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.