κτῆσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
κτάομαι (ktáomai) + -σις (-sis)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ktɛ̂ː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkte̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkti.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkti.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkti.sis/
Noun
κτῆσῐς • (ktêsĭs) f (genitive κτήσεως); third declension
- possession (ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own)
- property
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | κτῆσῐς ktêsĭs | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | κτήσιος ktḗsios | ||||||||||||
| Dative | κτήσει / κτήσεῐ̈ ktḗsei / ktḗseĭ̈ | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | κτῆσῐν ktêsĭn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | κτῆσῐ ktêsĭ | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κτῆσις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κτῆσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κτῆσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κτῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- achievement idem, page 8.
- acquirement idem, page 9.
- attainment idem, page 50.
- gain idem, page 352.
- possession idem, page 628.
- proprietorship idem, page 653.