πρός
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti. Cognates include Sanskrit प्रति (práti), Latin pretium, and Old Church Slavonic противъ (protivŭ). May be related to πρό (pró, “before”).
Equivalent prepositions in use for πρός (prós) from another root are ποτί (potí) — Epic, Doric, ποί (poí) — Doric, πός (pós) — Arcadocypriot.
The genitive is an innovated Greek associative. The dative is from the PIE locative. The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional, with some of the metaphorical uses like παρά (pará).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pros/
Adverb
[edit]πρός • (prós)
Preposition
[edit]πρός • (prós) (governs the genitive, dative, and accusative)
- (expressing direction) on the side of, from, at, to, forward to, toward
- from, on the side of, towards, pertaining to, at the hand of, by [with genitive]
- (mostly in religious formulas) before, in presence of, in the eyes of, in the sight of, in the name of
- (derivable from) agreeable to, becoming, like
- (with dative, expressing proximity) hard by, near to, at, among
- off (a coast or island), bordering on (countries, peoples)
- before, in presence of (of people)
- (with verbs of motion) towards, upon, against
- (expressing close engagement) at the point of, engaged in
- (expressing union or addition) besides, in addition to
- (with accusative, expressing motion or direction) towards
- (with verbs implying motion) upon, against
- (expressing addition) over and above
- (with verbs of seeing) towards, facing sth., to, against (the wind), in the light of, in (e.g. open day)
- (in hostile or discursive sense) against, in reply to, in accusation
- (for various kinds of intercourse or reciprocal action) with, (have certain feelings) towards, at the hands of, of, inspired by
- before (a gremium, witness etc.), in the eyes of (a God etc.) (of legal or other business contracted)
- towards (the evening etc.), at, about (of time)
- relating to, in reference to, in respect of, touching (some matter); in consequence of, in view of (some fact); according to (a certain document, habitude etc.)
- (music) accompanied by (an instrument)
- (in various adverbial phrases) with, under (e.g. compulsion), by means of, in (e.g. due proportion)
- from, on the side of, towards, pertaining to, at the hand of, by [with genitive]
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: προς (pros)
References
[edit]- “πρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πρός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4314 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- πρός 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (before)
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 1-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek adverbs
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek prepositions
- Ancient Greek genitive prepositions
- Ancient Greek dative prepositions
- Ancient Greek accusative prepositions
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