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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

  • νυνὶ δὲ κἀκεῖνο ἐννόησον, ὡσ παντάπασιν ἄγνωμον ποιεῖσ οὐκ ἐῶν με χρῆσθαι μετ’ ἐλευθερίασ ἐμῷ κτήματι. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 24:2)
  • ἀλλὰ χρὴ θύειν Ἀρτέμιδι Ἀγροτέρᾳ ἐπὶ τῷδε τῷ κτήματι· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 33 1:1)
  • καὶ ἡδονὴ διαφέρει οὐδὲν ἥ τε τοῦ αὐτάρκουσ ἐπὶ τῷ αὑτοῦ κτήματι ἢ παιδί, καὶ τοῦ ἐνδεοῦσ ἐπὶ τῷ γινομένῳ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 97:1)
  • Σαμουῆλοσ δὲ καλεῖ τὸν λαὸν εἰσ Μασφὰ πόλιν καὶ πρὸσ αὐτὸν διατίθεται λόγουσ, οὓσ κατ’ ἐντολὴν φράζειν ἔλεγε τοῦ θεοῦ, ὅτι τὴν ἐλευθερίαν αὐτοῖσ ἐκείνου παρασχόντοσ καὶ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ δουλώσαντοσ ἀμνημονήσειαν τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν, καὶ τὸν μὲν θεὸν ἀποχειροτονοῦσι τῆσ βασιλείασ οὐκ εἰδότεσ ὡσ συμφορώτατον ὑπὸ τοῦ πάντων ἀρίστου προστατεῖσθαι, θεὸσ δὲ πάντων ἄριστοσ, αἱροῦνται δ’ ἔχειν ἄνθρωπον βασιλέα, ὃσ ὡσ κτήματι τοῖσ ὑποτεταγμένοισ κατὰ βούλησιν καὶ ἐπιθυμίαν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων παθῶν ὁρμὴν χρήσεται τῆσ ἐξουσίασ ἀφειδῶσ ἐμφορούμενοσ, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὡσ ἴδιον ἔργον καὶ κατασκεύασμα τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένοσ οὕτωσ διατηρῆσαι σπουδάσει, ὁ θεὸσ δὲ κατὰ ταύτην τὴν αἰτίαν κήδοιτο. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 81:1)
  • ἔχουσα δὲ μόσχον ἕνα συνήθη καὶ τῆσ κατ’ οἶκον ἐπιμελείασ καὶ τροφῆσ ἀξιούμενον ὑπ’ αὐτῆσ, ὡσ γυνὴ χερνῆτισ καὶ τούτῳ μόνῳ προσαναπαυομένη τῷ κτήματι, κατασφάξασα τοῦτον καὶ τὰ κρέα παρασκευάσασα τοῖσ οἰκέταισ αὐτοῦ καὶ αὐτῷ παρατίθησι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 430:1)

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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