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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

  • περὶ δὲ κτημάτων καὶ γάμων αὐτοῦ καὶ τέκνων προσευχόμενοσ, οὐκ αἰσχύνεται τῷ ἀψύχῳ προσλαλῶν καὶ περὶ μὲν ὑγιείασ τὸ ἀσθενὲσ ἐπικαλεῖται, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 13:17)
  • εἰ δὲ πάντωσ ἐμμένειν τῇ ὁμοίᾳ νόσῳ διέγνωσται, ἴθι, ὠνοῦ μὲν βιβλία καὶ οἴκοι κατακλείσασ ἔχε καὶ καρποῦ τὴν δόξαν τῶν κτημάτων. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 28:2)
  • ἐν ταύτῃ γὰρ τὸ ζητούμενον ἦν οὐ τὸ κοινόν, εἰ τιμῶν καὶ στεφάνων ἄξιοσ ἦν Δημοσθένησ ἐπιδοὺσ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων κτημάτων τὴν εἰσ τὰ τείχη δαπάνην, ἀλλ’ εἰ καθ’ ὃν χρόνον ὑπεύθυνοσ ἦν, κωλύοντοσ τοῦ νόμου τοὺσ ὑπευθύνουσ στεφανοῦν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 12 3:3)
  • "διήρπαστο δὲ τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν κτημάτων παρὰ τὴν ἀποδημίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ μόνοι ὑπελείποντο οἱ ἀγροὶ ὅσον εἰσ πεντεκαίδεκα τάλαντα. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:27)
  • οἴμοι τῶν κτημάτων. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 20:1)

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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