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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

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

  • καὶ δώσω αὐτῇ τὰ κτήματα αὐτῆσ ἐκεῖθεν καὶ τὴν κοιλάδα Ἀχὼρ διανοῖξαι σύνεσιν αὐτῆσ, καὶ ταπεινωθήσεται ἐκεῖ κατὰ τὰσ ἡμέρασ νηπιότητοσ αὐτῆσ καὶ κατὰ τὰσ ἡμέρασ ἀναβάσεωσ αὐτῆσ ἐκ γῆσ Αἰγύπτου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 2:17)
  • ἐξηράνθησαν γεωργοί. θρηνεῖτε, κτήματα, ὑπὲρ πυροῦ καὶ κριθῆσ, ὅτι ἀπόλωλε τρυγητὸσ ἐξ ἀγροῦ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 1:11)
  • "εἶτα παρανομήσασ τι καὶ ἐσ ἐκείνουσ ‐ ὤφθη γάρ τι, ὡσ οἶμαι, ἐσθίων τῶν ἀπορρήτων αὐτοῖσ ‐ οὐκέτι προσιεμένων αὐτὸν ἀπορούμενοσ ἐκ παλινῳδίασ ἀπαιτεῖν ᾤετο δεῖν παρὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ τὰ κτήματα, καὶ γραμματεῖον ἐπιδοὺσ ἠξίου ταῦτα κομίσασθαι κελεύσαντοσ βασιλέωσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:37)
  • χαίρουσι καὶ θεοὶ πατρίσι καὶ πάντα μέν, ὡσ εἰκόσ, ἐφορῶσι τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, αὑτῶν ἡγούμενοι κτήματα πᾶσαν γῆν καὶ θάλασσαν, ἐφ’ ἧσ δὲ ἕκαστοσ αὐτῶν ἐγένετο, προτιμᾷ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπασῶν πόλεων. (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 5:1)
  • ἀπὸ δ’ οὖν τῆσ ἐπιθυμίασ ἣν ἔχουσι περὶ τὰ κτήματα, οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοισ προσκαλῶν Κτήσωνασ ἢ Κτησίππουσ ἢ Κτησικλέασ ἢ Εὐκτήμονασ ἢ Πολυκτήτουσ. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 26:8)

Synonyms

  1. anything gotten

  2. possessions

Related

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

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