Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἵνα δέ σοι δῶ αὐτὰ ἐκεῖνα κεκρικέναι, ὅσα ὁ Καλλῖνοσ εἰσ κάλλοσ ἢ ὁ ἀοίδιμοσ Ἀττικὸσ σὺν ἐπιμελείᾳ τῇ πάσῃ ἔγραψαν,^ σοὶ τί ὄφελοσ, ὦ θαυμάσιε, τοῦ κτήματοσ οὔτε εἰδότι τὸ κάλλοσ αὐτῶν οὔτε χρησομένῳ ποτὲ οὐδὲν μᾶλλον ἢ τυφλὸσ ἄν τισ ἀπολαύσειε κάλλουσ παιδικῶν; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 2:1)
  • εἴ τισ αὐλεῖν μὴ ἐπιστάμενοσ κτήσαιτο τοὺσ Τιμοθέου αὐλοὺσ ἢ τοὺσ Ἰσμηνίου, οὓσ ἑπτὰ ταλάντων ὁ Ἰσμηνίασ ἐν Κορίνθῳ ἐπρίατο, ἆρ’ ἂν διὰ τοῦτο καὶ αὐλεῖν δύναιτο, ἢ οὐδὲν ὄφελοσ αὐτῷ τοῦ κτήματοσ οὐκ ἐπισταμένῳ χρήσασθαι κατὰ τὴν τέχνην; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 5:4)
  • χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον Νέανθον τὸν τοῦ Πιττακοῦ τοῦ τυράννου ταῦτα ὑπὲρ τῆσ λύρασ πυνθανόμενον, ὡσ ἐκήλει μὲν θηρία καὶ φυτὰ καὶ λίθουσ, ἐμελῴδει δὲ καὶ μετὰ τὴν τοῦ Ὀρφέωσ συμφορὰν μηδενὸσ ἁπτομένου, εἰσ ἔρωτα τοῦ κτήματοσ ἐμπεσεῖν καὶ διαφθείραντα τὸν ἱερέα μεγάλοισ χρήμασι πεῖσαι ὑποθέντα ἑτέραν ὁμοίαν λύραν δοῦναι αὐτῷ τὴν τοῦ Ὀρφέωσ. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 11:3)
  • αὐτὸσ δὲ ὁ τοῦ θαυμαστοῦ κτήματοσ δεσπότησ καὶ αὐτὸν σὲ τῇ ἀπαιδευσίᾳ καὶ βδελυρίᾳ ὑπερηκόντισεν. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 14:2)
  • δεινήν τινα λέγεισ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν ἀβελτερίαν, οἳ τοσοῦτον ἔρωτα ἐρῶσιν ὠχροῦ καὶ βαρέοσ κτήματοσ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 11:12)

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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