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κατοίκισις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατοίκισις κατοίκισεως

Structure: κατοικισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from katoiki/zw

Sense

  1. a planting with inhabitants, foundation of a state, colonisation

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

  • ἐθεασάμεθα πρώτην τε καὶ δευτέραν καὶ τρίτην πόλιν, ἀλλήλων, ὡσ οἰόμεθα, ταῖσ κατοικίσεσιν ἐχομένασ ἐν χρόνου τινὸσ μήκεσιν ἀπλέτοισ, νῦν δὲ δὴ τετάρτη τισ ἡμῖν αὕτη πόλισ, εἰ δὲ βούλεσθε, ἔθνοσ ἥκει κατοικιζόμενόν τέ ποτε καὶ νῦν κατῳκισμένον. (Plato, Laws, book 3 42:2)

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

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