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ἔγκτημα?

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: enktēma

Principal Part: ἔγκτημα ἔγκτηματος

Structure: ἐγκτηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from ἐγκτάομαι

Sense

  1. land held in a district

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔγκτημα ἐγκτήματε ἐγκτήματα
Genitive ἐγκτήματος ἐγκτημάτοιν ἐγκτημάτων
Dative ἐγκτήματι ἐγκτημάτοιν ἐγκτήμασι(ν)
Accusative ἔγκτημα ἐγκτήματε ἐγκτήματα
Vocative ἔγκτημα ἐγκτήματε ἐγκτήματα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἑαυτῶν φασι τὴν χώραν οὖσαν οἰκεῖν καὶ οὐχ ὑμετέραν, καὶ τὰ μὲν ὑμέτερα εἶναι ἐγκτήματα ὡς ἐν ἀλλοτρίᾳ, τὰ δὲ ἑαυτῶν κτήμαθ ὡς ἐν οἰκείᾳ, καὶ ταῦθ ὑμέτερον πολίτην γράψαι ἐν ψηφίσματι, Κάλλιππον Παιανιέα. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 54:2)
  • φέρε, ἀλλὰ Χερρόνησον καὶ τὰς ἀποικίας καὶ τὰ ἐγκτήματα καὶ τὰ χρέα ἵνα ἀπολάβωμεν· (Andocides, Speeches, 22:1)
  • "εὖνοι καὶ νῦν ἐστὲ Ῥωμαίοις, ὧν ἔτι πολλοὶ παρ ἐκείνοις εἰσί, καὶ τὰ ἐγκτήματα Ῥωμαίων καρποῦσθε, ἡμῖν οὐκ ἀναφέροντες. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 7 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. land held in a district

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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