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πραγματεία
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πρᾱγματεύομαι (prāgmateúomai) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /praːŋ.ma.těː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /praɡ.maˈti.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /praɣ.maˈti.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /praɣ.maˈti.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /praɣ.maˈti.a/
Noun
πρᾱγμᾰτείᾱ • (prāgmăteíā) f (genitive πρᾱγμᾰτείᾱς); first declension
- prosecution of business, diligent study
- occupation, business, duty
- treatment of a subject
- philosophical argument or treatise
- systematic or scientific historical treatise
- magical operation, spell, charm
Declension
Descendants
- Greek: πραγματεία (pragmateía)
Further reading
- “πραγματεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πραγματεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πραγματεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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Greek
Noun
πραγματεία • (pragmateía) f (plural πραγματείες)
Declension
Related terms
- see: πράγμα n (prágma, “thing, entity”)
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