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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

  • ἀγγεῖον δ’ ἐστὶν ἐν ᾧ τοὺσ κτησίουσ Δίασ ἐγκαθιδρύουσιν, ὡσ Αὐτοκλείδησ φησὶν ἐν τῷ Ἐξηγητικῷ γράφων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 464)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐξερμηνεύοντεσ εἰσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν τοὔνομα οἱ μὲν Πατρῴουσ ἀποφαίνουσιν, οἱ δὲ Γενεθλίουσ, εἰσὶ δ’ οἳ Κτησίουσ, ἄλλοι δὲ Μυχίουσ, οἱ δὲ Ἑρκείουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 67 5:2)

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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