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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From πρᾱ́σσω ( prā́ssō , “ I do, practice ” ) + -σῐς ( -sis ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /prâːk.sis/ → /ˈprak.sis/ → /ˈprak.sis/
Noun
πρᾶξῐς • (prâxis ) f (genitive πρᾱ́ξεως ) ; third declension
act , action , activity , deed , doing
business dealing
success
collection of debts , arrears
business , office
work , treatise
magic spell
( euphemistic ) sexual intercourse
conduct , practice
state , condition
Declension
Derived terms
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Further reading
“πρᾶξις ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πρᾶξις ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
πρᾶξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935 ) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français , Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001 ) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature , Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
“πρᾶξις ”, in Slater, William J. (1969 ) Lexicon to Pindar , Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G4234 in Strong, James (1979 ) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
πρᾶξις in 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
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language , London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited . accomplishment idem, page 6.act idem, page 9.action idem, page 9.affair idem, page 16.behaviour idem, page 71.business idem, page 106.circumstance idem, page 133.commission idem, page 148.conduct idem, page 157.deed idem, page 202.demeanour idem, page 209.despatch idem, page 216.ethics idem, page 284.exaction idem, page 286.execution idem, page 290.extortion idem, page 297.fortune idem, page 340.fulfilment idem, page 348.morality idem, page 540.performance idem, page 607.perpetration idem, page 607.plight idem, page 621.proceeding idem, page 644.state idem, page 812.thing idem, page 867.transaction idem, page 888.