Praxiteles
Meanings
name
- 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.
- A crater on the planet Mercury measuring 182 km in diameter.
- A main-belt asteroid discovered in 1973.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Prāxitelēs, from Ancient Greek Πρᾱξῐτέλης (Prāxĭtélēs).
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