English

The Aphrodite of Cnidus, one of Praxiteles’ most famous sculptures.

Proper noun

Praxiteles

1. The most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC, and the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue.
2. A crater on the planet Mercury measuring 182 km in diameter.
3. A main-belt asteroid discovered in 1973.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Πρᾱξῐτέλης ‎(Prāxitélēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /praːkˈsi.te.leːs/

Proper noun

Prāxitelēs m ‎(genitive Prāxitelis); third declension

1. Praxiteles (a celebrated Greek sculptor)

Declension

Third declension i-stem.

Related terms

• Prāxitelīus

Descendants

• English: Praxiteles
• French: Praxitèle

References

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