κατασκευή

κᾰτᾰ- (kătă-) +‎ σκευή (skeuḗ)

κᾰτᾰσκευή • (kătăskeuḗ) f (genitive κᾰτᾰσκευῆς); first declension

1. preparation, construction, fitting out
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.5
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 455b
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.21.1
   1. unpacking
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.5.5
   2. training
      • Stoic. 3.89
2. permanent or fixed assets, fixtures, plant
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.10
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.16
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 923d
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 4.26
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 7.52
   1. (but also) any furniture or fittings
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.82
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.31
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.46
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 47.54
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 9.5
3. the state, condition, or constitution of a thing
   • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 214
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 544e
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 842c
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 739a
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 736b
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 477b
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.837
4. a device, a trick
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 2.1
   • 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 1.34
   • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 5.38
5. (logic) constructive reasoning
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Commentaries on the Attic Orators: On Lysias 24
   • 161 CE – 180 CE, Hermogenes, On Rhetorical Exercises 5
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.14.4
   • 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 11.2
   • Quint. 2.4.18
6. (rhetoric):
   1. artistic treatment
      • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 1.2.6
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 1
   2. manipulation
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 15
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 16
   3. elaboration
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Letter to Pompey 2
   4. correct style
      • Diocl., Stoic. 3.214
   5. technical resources
      • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 1.199S
7. (grammar) construction
   • c. 225 BCE, Archimedes, On the Sphere and Cylinder 2.4
   • 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements 203F
   • Papp. 174.17
8. (technical term) a system of gymnastic exercise
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.169

• (antonym(s) of “permanent or fixed assets”): παρασκευή (paraskeuḗ)
• (antonym(s) of “logic: constructive reasoning”): ἀνασκευή (anaskeuḗ)
• (antonym(s) of “rhetoric: correct style”): ἰδιωτισμός (idiōtismós)

• Greek: κατασκευή (kataskeví)
• Latin: catasceua

• “κατασκευή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰσκευή (kătăskeuḗ). By surface analysis, κατα- (kata-) +‎ -σκευή (-skeví)

κατασκευή • (kataskeví) f (plural κατασκευές)

1. construction, constructing
2. structure, design