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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

  • εἰ δὲ μή, πρῶτον μὲν ἐναντίουσ ἕξομεν πρὸσ ἐκεῖνα τούτουσ εἰκότωσ, ὅταν ἡγῶνται τὴν ἐκείνων κατοίκισιν αὑτοῖσ ὄλεθρον φέρειν, εἶτ’ ἀνήνυτα πράγμαθ’ ἕξομεν αὐτοί· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 34:2)
  • ἥκει γὰρ ἐπὶ τὴν εἰσ Λακεδαίμονα κατοίκισιν αὐτήν, ἣν ὑμεῖσ ὀρθῶσ ἔφατε κατοικεῖσθαι καὶ Κρήτην ὡσ ἀδελφοῖσ νόμοισ. (Plato, Laws, book 3 40:5)
  • καὶ μὴν αὐτῶν γ’ ἕνεκα καὶ τὸ Δωρικὸν ἐθεασάμεθα κατοικιζόμενον στρατόπεδον καὶ τὰσ τοῦ Δαρδάνου ὑπωρείασ τε καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ κατοίκισιν, καὶ τοὺσ πρώτουσ δὴ τοὺσ περιλιπεῖσ γενομένουσ τῆσ φθορᾶσ, ἔτι δὲ τοὺσ ἔμπροσθεν τούτων γενομένουσ ἡμῖν λόγουσ περί τε μουσικῆσ καὶ μέθησ καὶ τὰ τούτων ἔτι πρότερα. (Plato, Laws, book 3 156:2)
  • καὶ τὴν μὲν κατοίκισιν οὕτω τέλοσ ἔχειν. (Plato, Laws, book 5 137:3)
  • 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)

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

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