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κατάστασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάστασις κατάστασεως

Structure: καταστασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a settling, appointing, appointment, institution, ordinance
  2. appointment
  3. a bringing, before, an introduction, presentation
  4. a bringing, forward
  5. a putting down, calming
  6. a standing firm, a settled condition, fixedness
  7. a state, condition
  8. a constitution, system

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

  • τότε δὲ προκατασκευάζεταί τινα πρὸ τῶν διηγήσεων πράγματα καὶ προλαμβάνει τὰ μέλλοντα πιστοτέρασ αὐτὰσ ἢ κατ’ ἄλλο τι χρησιμωτέρασ ποιήσειν , ὡσ ἐν τῇ λήξει τῇ πρὸσ Ἀριστογείτονα καὶ Ἄρχιππον εὑρίσκεται πεποιηκώσ, ἐν ᾗ κλήρου τισ ἀμφισβητῶν, ἀδελφὸσ ὢν τοῦ τελευτήσαντοσ, προκαλεῖται τὸν ἔχοντα τἀφανῆ χρήματα εἰσ ἐμφανῶν κατάστασιν, ὁ δὲ τοῦ κλήρου κρατῶν παραγράφεται τὴν κλῆσιν, δεδόσθαι λέγων ἑαυτῷ τὰ χρήματα κατὰ διαθήκασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 151)
  • ἐπισκοπεῖν δὲ πανταχῇ κυκλοῦσαν ὄμμα χρὴ χοροῦ κατάστασιν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, anapests5)
  • οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι πλεονεξίασ ἕνεκα δεξάμενοι καὶ κυρώσαντεσ ἀπώλεσαν τὴν ἀρίστην κατάστασιν. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 5 3:2)
  • πειθοῖ γὰρ, οὐ δι’ ὅπλων οὐδὲ πάντα συλλήβδην ἀναιρῶν, ὥσπερ ἐκεῖνοσ, ἀλλ’ αὐτὴν ἐπανορθούμενοσ τὴν κατάστασιν τῶν βασιλέων ὃ καὶ φύσει που δίκαιον ἐδόκει, τὸν ἐξ ἀρίστων ἄριστον ἄρχειν ἐν πόλει τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἡγουμένῃ δι’ ἀρετήν, οὐ δι’ εὐγένειαν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lysander and Sulla, chapter 2 1:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πολλὴν κατάστασιν ἑώρων καὶ ἡσυχίαν, ὡσ ὕστερον διηγοῦντο καὶ πρὸσ ἑτέρουσ, ᾤοντο μηδὲν εἶναι δεινὸν ἀλλὰ κενὸν ἄλλωσ ἐξενηνέχθαι λόγον· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 5 3:2)
  • τίσ γὰρ ἐρεῖ. τί ἐποίησασ̣ ἢ τίσ ἀντιστήσεται τῷ κρίματί σου̣ τίσ δὲ ἐγκαλέσει σοι κατὰ ἐθνῶν ἀπολωλότων, ἃ σὺ ἐποίησασ̣ ἢ τίσ εἰσ κατάστασίν σοι ἐλεύσεται ἔκδικοσ κατὰ ἀδίκων ἀνθρώπων̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 12:12)

Synonyms

  1. a settling

  2. appointment

  3. a bringing

  4. a bringing

  5. a putting down

  6. a state

  7. a constitution

Related

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

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