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κατάληψις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάληψις κατάληψεως

Structure: καταληψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: katalamba/nw

Sense

  1. a seizing, grasp, an assaulting
  2. a taking possession, occupation

Declension

Third declension

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

  • τέχνη ἐστίν, ὡσ ἐγὼ διαμνημονεύω σοφοῦ τινοσ ἀκούσασ, σύστημα ἐκ καταλήψεων συγγεγυμνασμένων πρόσ τι τέλοσ εὔχρηστον τῷ βίῳ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 4:1)
  • φέρε δὴ καθ’ ἕκαστον τοῖσ τῆσ τέχνησ εἴδεσιν ἐφαρμόζοντεσ τὴν παρασιτικήν, εἰ συνᾴδει σκοπῶμεν ἢ ὁ περὶ αὐτῆσ λόγοσ, καθάπερ αἱ πονηραὶ χύτραι διακρουόμεναι, σαθρὸν ἀποφθέγγεται δεῖ τοίνυν πᾶσαν τέχνην σύστημα ἐκ καταλήψεων . (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 4:5)
  • οὐκοῦν εἰ μήτε ἀτεχνία ἐστὶν ἡ παρασιτικὴ μήτε δύναμισ, σύστημα δέ τι ἐκ καταλήψεων γεγυμνασμένων, τέχνη δῆλον ὅτι διωμολόγηται ἡμῖν σήμερον. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 8:17)
  • ὁ γὰρ σοφὸσ αὐτοῖσ καὶ φρόνιμοσ ἐν πολλαῖσ καταλήψεσι καὶ μνήμαισ καταλήψεων γεγονὼσ ὀλίγασ πρὸσ αὑτὸν ἡγεῖται τῶν τ’ ἄλλων οὐ πεφροντικὼσ οὐδ’ ἔλαττον ἔχειν οῦδὲ πλέον οἰέται, μνημονεύων ὅτι πέρυσι κατάληψιν ἔλαβε πταρνυμένου Δίωνοσ ἢ σφαιρίζοντοσ Θέωνοσ. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 7 3:3)

Related

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

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