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κατασκευή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατασκευή

Structure: κατασκευ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. preparation, in preparing for, the equipment
  2. any kind of furniture that is fixed, buildings, fixtures, any furniture
  3. the state, condition, constitution
  4. a device, trick

Declension

First 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

  • ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο ἐνδείξασθαι βουλόμενον, ὅτι τὰ τοιαῦτα ἁμαρτήματα ἐν ταῖσ κατασκευαῖσ εἰώθεν ἁμαρτάνειν, καὶ χείρων μὲν αὐτὸσ αὑτοῦ γίνεται, ὅταν τὸ μέγα διώκῃ καὶ περιττὸν ἐν τῇ φράσει, μακρῷ δέ τινι ἀμείνων, ὅταν τὴν ἰσχνὴν καὶ ἀκριβῆ καὶ δοκοῦσαν μὲν ἀποίητον εἶναι κατεσκευασμένην δὲ ἀμωμήτῳ καὶ ἀφελεῖ κατασκευῇ διάλεκτον εἰσφέρῃ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 7:2)
  • τοῦ δ’ Ὑπερειδείου ταῖσ τε οἰκονομίαισ ἀκριβεστέρου καὶ ταῖσ κατασκευαῖσ γενναιοτέρου πωσ ὄντοσ τῶν Λυσιακῶν ἐν πλείοσι μὲν ἢ τριάκοντα Δεινάρχου λόγοισ παραδείγματα εὑρεῖν ἔστιν, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ καὶ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῆσ Ἀγάθωνοσ διαμαρτυρίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 5 1:2)
  • ἔργων γε μὴν μεγέθεσι καὶ ναῶν καὶ κατασκευαῖσ οἰκοδομημάτων, ἐξ ὧν ἐκόσμησεν ὁ Περικλῆσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ, οὐκ ἄξιον ὁμοῦ πάντα τὰ πρὸ τῶν Καισάρων φιλοτιμήματα τῆσ Ῥώμησ παραβαλεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἔξοχόν τι πρὸσ ἐκεῖνα καὶ ἀσύγκριτον ἡ τούτων ἔσχε μεγαλουργία καὶ μεγαλοπρέπεια τὸ πρωτεῖον. (Plutarch, Comparison of Pericles and Fabius Maximus, chapter 3 5:1)
  • ἐν ταῖσ τῶν σωμάτων κατασκευαῖσ. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 3 4:1)
  • αὗται δ’ ἦσαν ἐν ταῖσ τῶν σωμάτων κατασκευαῖσ. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 3 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. preparation

  2. the state

  3. a device

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

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