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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

  • καὶ τὰ ἔργα ἦν αὐτοῖσ ἱκανὰ εἰσ τὴν κατασκευὴν ποιῆσαι, καὶ προσκατέλιπον. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 36:7)
  • καὶ Σαλωμὼν τῷ υἱῷ μου δὸσ καρδίαν ἀγαθὴν ποιεῖν τὰσ ἐντολάσ σου καὶ τὰ μαρτύριά σου καὶ τὰ προστάγματά σου καὶ τοῦ ἐπὶ τέλουσ ἀγαγεῖν τὴν κατασκευὴν τοῦ οἴκου σου. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 29:19)
  • ἀπεσώθη μέντοι πάντα, οὐ τὰ ἱστία μόνον καὶ τὰ σκεύη τὰ ναυτικὰ καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι, ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ ἧλοι, καὶ ὁ κηρὸσ ἀπεξύσθη, ὡσ μηδενὸσ ἄλλου ἢ ξύλων δεῖσθαι ναυπηγησίμων ἐσ τὴν κατασκευήν, ὧν παμπόλλη, χειμὼν ἐπὶ δύο ἡμέρασ κατεῖχεν, καὶ ἦν ἀνάγκη μένειν· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 5 2:1)
  • ἐνθυμούμενοσ δέ, ὅτι τὴν μὲν ποιητικὴν κατασκευὴν καὶ τὸ μετέωρον δὴ τοῦτο καὶ πομπικὸν εἰρημένον οὐδεὶσ Ἰσοκράτουσ ἀμείνων ἐγένετο, παρέλιπον ἑκών, οὓσ ᾔδειν ἧττον ἐν ταῖσ ἰδέαισ ταύταισ κατορθοῦντασ, Γοργίαν μὲν τὸν Λεοντῖνον ἐκπίπτοντα τοῦ μετρίου καὶ πολλαχοῦ παιδαριώδη γιγνόμενον ὁρῶν, Ἀλκιδάμαντα δὲ τὸν ἀκουστὴν αὐτοῦ παχύτερον ὄντα τὴν λέξιν καὶ κενότερον, Θεόδωρον δὲ τὸν Βυζάντιον ἀρχαῖόν τινα καὶ οὔτε ἐν ταῖσ τέχναισ ἀκριβῆ οὔτε ἐξέτασιν ἱκανὴν ἐν τοῖσ ἐναγωνίοισ δεδωκότα λόγοισ, Ἀναξιμένην δὲ τὸν Λαμψακηνὸν ἐν ἁπάσαισ μὲν ταῖσ ἰδέαισ τῶν λόγων τετράγωνόν τινα εἶναι βουλόμενον καὶ γὰρ ἱστορίασ γέγραφε καὶ περὶ τοῦ ποιητοῦ συντάξεισ καταλέλοιπε καὶ τέχνασ ἐξενήνοχεν, ἧπται δὲ καὶ συμβουλευτικῶν καὶ δικανικῶν ἀγώνων, οὐ μέντοι τέλειόν γε ἐν οὐδεμιᾷ τούτων τῶν ἰδεῶν ἀλλ’ ἀσθενῆ καὶ ἀπίθανον ὄντα ἐν ἁπάσαισ θεωρῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 193)
  • αἵ τε παρομοιώσεισ καὶ παρισώσεισ καὶ τὰ ἀντίθετα καὶ πᾶσ ὁ τῶν τοιούτων σχημάτων κόσμοσ πολύσ ἐστι παρ’ αὐτῷ καὶ λυπεῖ πολλάκισ τὴν ἄλλην κατασκευὴν προσιστάμενοσ ταῖσ ἀκοαῖσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 2 2:4)

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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