Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κτητός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κτητός κτητή κτητόν

Structure: κτητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kta/omai의 분사형,

Sense

  1. that may be gotten
  2. worth getting, desirable
  3. acquired, a female slave

Examples

  • οἶκον μὲν πρώτιστα γυναῖκά τε βοῦν τ’ ἀροτῆρα, κτητήν, οὐ γαμετήν, ἥτισ καὶ βουσὶν ἕποιτο, χρήματα δ’ ἐν οἴκῳ πάντ’ ἄρμενα ποιήσασθαι, μὴ σὺ μὲν αἰτῇσ ἄλλον, ὃ δ’ ἀρνῆται, σὺ δὲ τητᾷ, ἡ δ’ ὡρ́η παραμείβηται, μινύθῃ δὲ τὸ ἔργον. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 48:1)
  • ἀπορίᾳ οὖν σχόμενοσ ὁ Προμηθεὺσ ἥντινα σωτηρίαν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ εὑρ́οι, κλέπτει Ἡφαίστου καὶ Ἀθηνᾶσ τὴν ἔντεχνον σοφίαν σὺν πυρί ‐ ἀμήχανον γὰρ ἦν ἄνευ πυρὸσ αὐτὴν κτητήν τῳ ἢ χρησίμην γενέσθαι ‐ καὶ οὕτω δὴ δωρεῖται ἀνθρώπῳ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 105:4)

Synonyms

  1. that may be gotten

  2. worth getting

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

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