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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

  • δευτέρων δὲ εὐφημιῶν Θησεύσ τε ἀρχηγέτησ καὶ Σμύρνα ὄνομα τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ, καὶ γένοσ Ἀττικὸν, καὶ Ιὤνων ὕστερον ὡσ εἰσ οἰκείαν εἴσοδοσ, καὶ τρίτη δὴ θέσισ καὶ κατοίκισισ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον, οὗ δύο ταῦτα κάλλιστα καὶ μέγιστα μνημεῖα, ἥδε τε ἡ πόλισ καὶ ἡ τοῦ Νείλου πρόσοικοσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:7)
  • πῇ δή ποτε οὖν, ὦ ἄριστοι, κακῶσ οὕτωσ αὐτοῖσ ἐχώρησεν ἡ κατοίκισίσ τε καὶ νομοθεσία; (Plato, Laws, book 3 52:3)

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

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