different between praxis vs paxis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?æk.s?s/

Noun

praxis (countable and uncountable, plural praxes or praxises)

1. The practical application of any branch of learning.
2. (drama) The deliberate action of a rational being.
3. (philosophy) The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either.
4. Custom or established practice.
5. An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.

Related terms

• praxic
• praxeology

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (prâxis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pra?k.sis/, [?p?ä?ks??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?prak.sis/, [?p??ksis]

Noun

pr?xis f sg (genitive pr?xis or pr?xe?s or pr?xios); third declension

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   • (Can we date this quote?), Petronius (Titus or Gajus Petronius Arbiter). In: Petronii satirae et liber priapeorum, edited by Franciscus Buecheler, Berlin, 1871, p. 24:

     nam mihi nihil novi potest afferri, sicut ille fericulus iam habuit praxim.

     fericulusta mel habuit

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem), singular only.

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• Italian: prassi

References

• PRAXIM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• praxis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,234/1
• “praxis” on page 1,451/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Spanish

Noun

praxis f (plural praxis)

1. praxis

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

praxis c

1. practice, custom, the usual way to do things

   teori och praxis

   theory and practice

2. case law, previous court decisions as a base for legal judgement

   Hovrättens dom strider mot Europadomstolens praxis.

   The verdict of the court of appeal is in conflict with the practice of the European Court of Human Rights.

See also

• praktik
• rättsfall

English

Etymology

From the Latin pax (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæks?s/

Interjection

paxis

1. (Britain) Used by schoolchildren to express immunity from "being caught" in games such as bulldog or it.