Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κτάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κτάομαι

Structure: κτά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: Dep.

Sense

  1. to procure for oneself, to get, gain, acquire, to get one's, to win
  2. to bring upon oneself, incur, to make
  3. to procure or get
  4. to have acquired, to possess, have, hold, an owner, master, lord and master
  5. to be gotten

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • κτῶνται δὲ καὶ χρήματα φιλοτιμίασ ἕνεκεν τῆσ εἰσ τὰ κοινὰ τῆσ πατρίδοσ δαπανήματα. (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 7:2)
  • τοὺσ μὲν οὖν Ῥοδίουσ ὁ Στρατόνικοσ ἐπέσκωπτεν εἰσ πολυτέλειαν, οἰκοδομεῖν μὲν ὡσ ἀθανάτουσ λέγων ὀψωνεῖν δ’ ὡσ ὀλιγοχρονίουσ οἱ δὲ φιλάργυροι κτῶνται μὲν ὡσ πολυτελεῖσ χρῶνται δ’ ὡσ ἀνελεύθεροι, καὶ τοὺσ μὲν πόνουσ ὑπομένουσι τὰσ δ’ ἡδονὰσ οὐκ ἔχουσιν. (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 5 3:2)
  • κτῶνται δὲ ταῦτα τῷ εὖ καὶ καλῶσ πράττειν; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 80:9)
  • ἀλλὰ νῦν οἱ μὲν πολιτευόμενοι ἐν ταῖσ πατρίσι καὶ νόμουσ τίθενται, ἵνα μὴ ἀδικῶνται, καὶ φίλουσ πρὸσ τοῖσ ἀναγκαίοισ καλουμένοισ ἄλλουσ κτῶνται βοηθούσ, καὶ ταῖσ πόλεσιν ἐρύματα περιβάλλονται, καὶ ὅπλα κτῶνται οἷσ ἀμυνοῦνται τοὺσ ἀδικοῦντασ, καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ ἄλλουσ ἔξωθεν συμμάχουσ κατασκευάζονται· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 15:4)

Synonyms

  1. to procure for oneself

  2. to bring upon oneself

  3. to procure or get

  4. to have acquired

Derived

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

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