πρᾶξιν (praxin)

πρᾶξιν is an Ancient Greek form of πρᾶξις, meaning “action, business”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 446 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.88.9: … ίμονα αὐτῶν τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων μεταπεμψάντων ὑπόσπονδος ἐλθών· ἐφοβεῖτο γὰρ αὐτοὺς διὰ τὴν περὶ τῶν Μαντινικῶν πρᾶξιν.

Plutarch, De Tranquillitate Animi 14: … μένῳ καταναλίσκειν τὸ πλεκόμενον, ὅτῳ τῶν πολλῶν ἀναίσθητος καὶ ἀχάριστος ὑπολαμβάνουσα λήθη καὶ κατανεμομένη πρᾶξίν τε πᾶσαν ἀφανίζουσα καὶ κατόρθωμα καὶ σχολὴν ἐπίχαριν καὶ συμπεριφορὰν καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν, οὐκ ἐᾷ τὸν βίον ἕνα γεν …

Procopius, De Bellis 1.25.19: καὶ ὃς τῷ λόγῳ ἡσθεὶς ʽταύτην γάρ οἱ ὁδὸν ἔς τε τὰ μαντεῖα καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν ὑπετόπαζε φέρειν τὴν πρᾶξιν’ εὐθὺς μελλήσει οὐδεμιᾷ ὡμολόγησε, πράσσειν τε τὴν παῖδα ἐκέλευεν ὅπως τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ ἐς λόγους τῇ Ἀντωνίνῃ αὐτὸς ξυμμίξῃ καὶ τὰ πιστὰ δοίη.

All forms of πρᾶξις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.