# πρᾶξις
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* πρῆξῐς (prêxis) — Epic, Ionic

### Etymology

From πρᾱ́σσω (prā́ssō, “I do, practice”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prâːk.sis/ → /ˈprak.sis/ → /ˈprak.sis/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /prâːk.sis/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈprak.sis/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈprak.sis/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈprak.sis/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /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

#### Derived terms

* ἀνάπραξις (anápraxis)
* ἀντίπραξις (antípraxis)
* διάπραξις (diápraxis)
* εἴσπραξις (eíspraxis)
* ἔκπραξις (ékpraxis)
* ἔμπραξις (émpraxis)
* εὐπρᾱξίᾱ (euprāxíā)
* κατάπραξις (katápraxis)
* Πραξαγόρας (Praxagóras)
* Πράξανδρος (Práxandros)
* Πραξιθέα (Praxithéa)
* Πραξιτέλης (Praxitélēs)
* Πραξιφάνης (Praxiphánēs)
* σύμπραξις (súmpraxis)

#### Descendants

* Greek: πράξη (práxi)
* Mariupol Greek: пра́кси (práksi)
* → Coptic: ⲡⲣⲁⲝⲓⲥ (praksis)
* → Czech: praxe
* → English: praxis
* → German: Praxis
* → Latin: prāxis
** Italian: prassi
* → Macedonian: пракса (praksa)
* → Old Armenian: պրակ (prak)
** Armenian: պրակ (prak)
* → Pannonian Rusyn: пракса (praksa)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: пракса
    Latin script: praksa
* → Portuguese: práxis
* → Spanish: praxis
* → Swedish: praxis
* → Classical Syriac: ܦܪܟܣܝܣ
* → Ukrainian: праця (pracja)
* → Belarusian: праца (praca)

#### See also

* θεωρία (theōría)
* ποίησις (poíēsis)
* πρᾶγμα (prâgma)
* πράκτωρ (práktōr)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πρᾱ́σσω (> DER > 1. πρᾶξις, πρῆξῐς)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1229-1230

### 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.