πρόκλησις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
προκᾰλέω (prokăléō, “to call forth, challenge”) + -σῐς (-sĭs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pró.klɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kle̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kli.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kli.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kli.sis/
Noun
πρόκλησῐς • (próklēsĭs) f (genitive προκλήσεως); third declension
- calling forth, challenge (to combat, etc.)
- invitation, offer, proposal
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πρόκλησῐς hē próklēsĭs |
τὼ προκλήσει tṑ proklḗsei |
αἱ προκλήσεις hai proklḗseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς προκλήσεως tês proklḗseōs |
τοῖν προκλησέοιν toîn proklēséoin |
τῶν προκλήσεων tôn proklḗseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ προκλήσει tēî proklḗsei |
τοῖν προκλησέοιν toîn proklēséoin |
ταῖς προκλήσεσῐ / προκλήσεσῐν taîs proklḗsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πρόκλησῐν tḕn próklēsĭn |
τὼ προκλήσει tṑ proklḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς προκλήσεις tā̀s proklḗseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πρόκλησῐ próklēsĭ |
προκλήσει proklḗsei |
προκλήσεις proklḗseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: πρόκληση (próklisi)
Further reading
- “πρόκλησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρόκλησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πρόκλησις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011