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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

  • Μαρτυρία εἶτ’ οὐ δεινόν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, εἰ, ὅτι μὲν εἷσ ἀνὴρ ἔφησε Πιστίασ Ἀρεοπαγίτησ ὢν ἀδικεῖν με, καταψευδόμενοσ κἀμοῦ καὶ τῆσ βουλῆσ, ἴσχυσεν ἂν τὸ ψεῦδοσ τῆσ ἀληθείασ μᾶλλον, εἰ διὰ τὴν ἀσθένειαν τὴν τότε καὶ τὴν ἐρημίαν τὴν ἐμὴν ἐπιστεύθησαν αἱ κατ’ ἐμοῦ ψευδεῖσ γενόμεναι κατασκευαί· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 63:4)
  • καὶ αἱ κατασκευαὶ αὐτῶν ἄνευ παραδειγμάτων εἰσίν, ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖστον, ὡσ δῆλον μέν ἐστι καὶ ἐν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἅπασι, μάλιστα δὲ ἐν τοῖσ Ἀπομνημονεύμασιν· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 3:2)
  • οὐ μόνον δὲ αἱ τῶν ὀνομάτων συζυγίαι τὴν μικτὴν ἁρμονίαν λαμβάνουσι παρ’ αὐτῷ καὶ μέσην, ἀλλὰ καὶ αἱ τῶν κώλων κατασκευαί τε καὶ συνθέσεισ καὶ τὰ τῶν περιόδων μήκη τε καὶ σχήματα καὶ οἱ περιλαμβάνοντεσ αὐτάσ τε καὶ τὰ κῶλα ῥυθμοί. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 43 4:6)
  • εἰ μέντοι τινὲσ ἐν τοῖσ ψευδεπιγράφοισ εἰσὶ λόγοισ ἀηδεῖσ καὶ φορτικαὶ καὶ ἄγροικοι κατασκευαί, ὡσ ἐν τοῖσ κατ’ Ἀριστογείτονοσ β καὶ ἐν τῇ ἀπολογίᾳ τῶν δώρων καὶ ἐν τῷ περὶ τοῦ μὴ ἐκδοῦναι Ἅρπαλον καὶ ἐν τῷ κατὰ Νεαίρασ καὶ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν πρὸσ Ἀλέξανδρον συνθηκῶν ἐν ἄλλοισ τε συχνοῖσ, οὕσ ὁ Δημοσθένησ οὐκ ἔγραψεν, ἐν ἑτέρᾳ δηλοῦταί μοι πραγματείᾳ τὰ περὶ Δημοσθένη. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 57 1:5)
  • ἔστι δὲ τῶν δαπανημάτων οἱᾶ λέγομεν τὰ τίμια, οἱο͂ν τὰ περὶ θεούσ, ἀναθήματα καὶ κατασκευαὶ καὶ θυσίαι, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ περὶ πᾶν τὸ δαιμόνιον, καὶ ὅσα πρὸσ τὸ κοινὸν εὐφιλοτίμητά ἐστιν, οἱο͂ν εἴ που χορηγεῖν οἰόνται δεῖν λαμπρῶσ ἢ τριηραρχεῖν ἢ καὶ ἑστιᾶν τὴν πόλιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 50:3)

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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