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κτήσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κτήσιος κτήσιᾱ κτήσιον

Structure: κτησι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kta/omai

Sense

  1. belonging to property, property, of one's own flock
  2. belonging to one's house, the protector of property, of

Examples

  • ληϊζόμενοι δὲ τὴν θάλασσαν ἐκ παλαιοῦ, τελευτῶντεσ οὐδὲ τῶν εἰσπλεόντων παρ’ αὐτοὺσ καὶ χρωμένων ἀπείχοντο ξένων, ἀλλὰ Θετταλούσ τινασ ἐμπόρουσ περὶ τὸ Κτήσιον ὁρμισαμένουσ συλήσαντεσ εἱρ͂ξαν. (Plutarch, , chapter 8 3:3)
  • τὸν δὲ Κτήσιον καὶ τὸν Ἐπικάρπιον ἥ τε ἁπλότησ καὶ ἡ μεγαλοφροσύνη, δηλουμένη διὰ τῆσ μορφῆσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 99:7)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to property

Related

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

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