ἀπραξία

From ᾰ̓- (ă-, “un-, in-, non-”) +‎ πρᾶξῐς (prâxĭs, “doing, action”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, abstract noun suffix).

ᾰ̓πρᾱξῐ́ᾱ • (ăprāxĭ́ā) f (genitive ᾰ̓πρᾱξῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. nonaction

   Synonym: ᾰ̓πρᾱγῐ́ᾱ (ăprāgĭ́ā, concrete noun)

   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 426:

     Οὔπω· τὸ μέλλον δ᾽ ῐ̓́σον ᾰ̓πρᾱξῐ́ᾳ λέγω.

     Oúpō; tò méllon d’ ĭ́son ăprāxĭ́āi légō.

     Not yet; but I speak of the future as equal to not acting.

   • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 262c:

      […]· οὐδεμῐ́ᾰν γᾰ̀ρ οὔτε οὕτως οὔτ᾽ ἐκείνως πρᾶξῐν οὐδ᾽ ᾰ̓πρᾱξῐ́ᾱν οὐδὲ οὐσῐ́ᾱν ὄντος οὐδὲ μὴ ὄντος δηλοῖ τᾰ̀ φωνηθέντᾰ, πρὶν ᾰ̓́ν τῐς τοῖς ὀνόμᾰσῐ τᾰ̀ ῥήμᾰτᾰ κερᾰ́σῃ.

      […]; oudemĭ́ăn gằr oúte hoútōs oút’ ekeínōs prâxĭn oud’ ăprāxĭ́ān oudè ousĭ́ān óntos oudè mḕ óntos dēloî tằ phōnēthéntă, prìn ắn tĭs toîs onómăsĭ tằ rhḗmătă kerắsēi.

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2. leisure, rest from business
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, 633
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Sulla 8
3. lack of success; futility
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 188
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 1.38S

• → English: apraxia
• → Greek: απραξία (apraxía)

• “ἀπραξία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press