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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

  • πόλεων μὲν οὖν μεγέθη καὶ λαμπρότητασ καὶ πολυτελείασ κατασκευῶν θαυμάζουσι πολλοί, πατρίδασ δὲ στέργουσι πάντεσ· (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 1:4)
  • τὸ καθαρὸν τῶν ὀνομάτων, ἡ ἀκρίβεια τῆσ διαλέκτου, τὸ διὰ τῶν κυρίων καὶ μὴ τροπικῶν κατασκευῶν ἐκφέρειν τὰ νοήματα, ἡ σαφήνεια, ἡ συντομία, τὸ συστρέφειν τε καὶ στρογγυλίζειν τὰ νοήματα, τὸ ὑπὸ τὰσ αἰσθήσεισ ἄγειν τὰ δηλούμενα, τὸ μηδὲν ἄψυχον ὑποτίθεσθαι πρόσωπον μηδὲ ἀνηθοποίητον, ἡ τῆσ συνθέσεωσ τῶν ὀνομάτων ἡδονὴ μιμουμένησ τὸν ἰδιώτην, τὸ τοῖσ ὑποκειμένοισ προσώποισ καὶ πράγμασι τοὺσ πρέποντασ ἐφαρμόττειν λόγουσ, ἡ πιθανότησ καὶ τὸ πειστικὸν καὶ ἡ χάρισ καὶ ὁ πάντα μετρῶν καιρόσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 13 1:1)
  • Αἠδὲσ μὴν καὶ μακρολογέειν περὶ τούτων‧ ὅμωσ δὲ ἐκ τουτέων ἂν τῶν κατασκευῶν κάλλιστ’ ἄν τισ κατασεισθείη. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 43.6)
  • περὶ κατασκευῶν τῶν πυραμίδων τῶν ἀναγραφομένων ἐν τοῖσ ἑπτὰ θαυμαζομένοισ ἔργοισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter pr9)
  • διόπερ τῶν μὲν κατὰ τὰσ οἰκίασ κατασκευῶν ἧττον φροντίζουσι, περὶ δὲ τὰσ ταφὰσ ὑπερβολὴν οὐκ ἀπολείπουσι φιλοτιμίασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 51 2:2)

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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