Praxiteles

Meaning

Proper Noun

• 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.
• A crater on the planet Mercury measuring 182 km in diameter.
• A main-belt asteroid discovered in 1973.

Origin

• From the Latin Prāxitelēs, from the Ancient Greek Πραξιτέλης.