Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

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

  • ἄτοπον γὰρ τοὺσ μὲν ἀρτιάζοντασ σύνεσιν ἐπιδείκνυσθαι, καὶ ταῦτα εἰκάζοντασ καὶ μὴ ὁρῶντασ τοῦτο περὶ οὗ ἀποφαίνονται, τοὺσ δὲ περὶ πραγμάτων βουλευομένουσ μήτε ξύνεσιν μήτε ἐπιστήμην μήτε ἐμπειρίαν ἐπιδείκνυσθαι, καὶ τούτων ἐνίοτε τῶν μεγίστων ὄντων, περὶ ὁμονοίασ καὶ φιλίασ οἰκιῶν καὶ πόλεων καὶ περὶ εἰρήνησ καὶ πολέμου καὶ περὶ κατοικισμοῦ καὶ περὶ κατοικίσεωσ, περί τε παίδων καὶ γυναικῶν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 13:1)
  • ὦ φίλε Κλεινία, ἐκ τῶν νῦν ἡμῖν εἰρημένων ἁπάντων ἢ τὴν πόλιν ἐατέον τῆσ κατοικίσεωσ ἢ τὸν ξένον τόνδε οὐκ ἀφετέον, ἀλλὰ δεήσεσιν καὶ μηχαναῖσ πάσαισ κοινωνὸν ποιητέον ἐπὶ τὴν τῆσ πόλεωσ κατοίκισιν. (Plato, Laws, book 12 190:1)
  • αὐτοὶ γὰρ ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆσ κατοικίσεωσ, ἣν ᾠκίζετε πόλιν, ὡμολογεῖτε δεῖν κατὰ φύσιν ἕκαστον ἕνα ἓν τὸ αὑτοῦ πράττειν. (Plato, Republic, book 5 80:2)
  • Ἀλεξάνδρου μὲν οὖν ὕπνοσ ᾄδεται, προοίμιον τῆσ κατοικίσεωσ ἔχων· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:4)

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

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