Praxiteles

Borrowed from Latin Prāxitelēs, from Ancient Greek Πρᾱξῐτέλης (Prāxĭtélēs).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹakˈsɪtɪliːz/

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Praxiteles

1. (Ancient Greece) The most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BCE, and the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue.
   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter X, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

     The altar was adorned with the masterly sculptures of Praxiteles, who had, perhaps, selected from the favorite legends of the place the birth of the divine children of Latona, the concealment of Apollo after the slaughter of the Cyclops, and the clemency of Bacchus to the vanquished Amazons.

   • 1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC:

     Upon its surface of bronze were elaborately wrought, in the still exquisite workmanship of Greece, reliefs of the Olympian games; […] they paused motionless, as if suddenly transformed into stone—lifeless, but lifelike, as one of the breathing wonders of Praxiteles.

2. (astronomy) A crater on the planet Mercury measuring 182 km in diameter.
3. (astronomy) A main-belt asteroid discovered in 1973.

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From the Ancient Greek Πρᾱξῐτέλης (Prāxĭtélēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [praːkˈsɪ.tɛ.ɫeːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [prakˈsiː.t̪e.les]

Prāxitelēs m sg (genitive Prāxitelis); third declension

1. Praxiteles (a celebrated Greek sculptor)

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Prāxitelīus

• English: Praxiteles
• French: Praxitèle

• “Praxĭtĕles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Praxĭtĕlēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,234/1.

• Praxiteles on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la