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κτῆμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κτῆμα κτῆματος

Structure: κτηματ (Stem)

Etym.: kta/omai

Sense

  1. anything gotten, a piece of property, a possession
  2. possessions, property, wealth, on the wealthy

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κτῆμα κτήματε κτήματα
Genitive κτήματος κτημάτοιν κτημάτων
Dative κτήματι κτημάτοιν κτήμασιν*
Accusative κτῆμα κτήματε κτήματα
Vocative κτῆμα κτήματε κτήματα

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

  • μετοίκων δέ τινων ἐπιδεδανεικότων ἐπὶ κτήμασιν, οὐκ οὔσησ αὐτοῖσ ἐγκτήσεωσ ἐψηφίσαντο τὸ τρίτον μέροσ εἰσφέροντα τοῦ δανείου τὸν βουλόμενον κυρίωσ ἔχειν τὸ κτῆμα. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 28:1)
  • οὗτοσ ἔγνω τὴν Λαρεντίαν καὶ ἠγάπησε, καὶ τελευτῶν ἀπέλιπε κληρονόμον ἐπὶ πολλοῖσ καὶ καλοῖσ κτήμασιν, ὧν ἐκείνη τὰ πλεῖστα τῷ δήμῳ κατὰ διαθήκασ ἔδωκε. (Plutarch, chapter 5 4:1)
  • καὶ τοῖσ μὲν τῶν πολεμίων κτήμασιν οὐκ ἐπεβούλευε· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 6 27:1)
  • ἀνδρῶν δ’ ἤ κέν τίσ μοι ἐρίσσεται, ἠὲ καὶ οὐκί, κτήμασιν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 11:3)
  • μῆνα γὰρ οἰο͂ν ἔμεινα τεταρπόμενοσ τεκέεσσιν κουριδίῃ τ’ ἀλόχῳ καὶ κτήμασιν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 21:5)

Synonyms

  1. anything gotten

  2. possessions

Related

Similar forms

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

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