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κτῆνος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κτῆνος κτήνους

Structure: κτηνο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kta/omai

Sense

  1. (mostly plural) A domestic animal

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κτῆνος κτήνει κτήνη
Genitive κτήνους κτήνοιν κτηνέων
Dative κτήνει κτήνοιν κτήνεσιν*
Accusative κτῆνος κτήνει κτήνη
Vocative κτῆνος κτήνει κτήνη

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

  • οὐκ ἀλλάξει αὐτὸ καλὸν πονηρῷ, οὐδὲ πονηρὸν καλῷ. ἐὰν δὲ ἀλλάσσων ἀλλάξῃ αὐτὸ κτῆνοσ κτήνει, ἔσται αὐτὸ καὶ τὸ ἄλλαγμα ἅγια. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 27:10)
  • καὶ παρῆλθον ἐπὶ πύλην τοῦ Αἴ̈ν καὶ εἰσ κολυμβήθραν τοῦ βασιλέωσ, καὶ οὐκ ἦν τόποσ τῷ κτήνει παρελθεῖν ὑποκάτω μου. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 2:14)
  • ὡσ δὲ τελευτήσασαν ἔμαθε, σωφρόνωσ πρὸσ τὸ μέγεθοσ τῶν κακῶν ἐπιθέμενοσ τῷ κτήνει νεκρὰν τὴν γυναῖκα κομίζει πρὸσ αὑτόν, καὶ διελὼν αὐτὴν κατὰ μέλοσ εἰσ μέρη δώδεκα διέπεμψεν εἰσ ἑκάστην φυλὴν ἐντειλάμενοσ τοῖσ κομίζουσι λέγειν τοὺσ αἰτίουσ τῆσ τελευτῆσ τῇ γυναικὶ καὶ τὴν παροινίαν τῆσ φυλῆσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 188:1)

Synonyms

  1. A domestic animal

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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