κτῆμα

See also: κτήμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κτάομαι (ktáomai, “to acquire”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ktɛ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈkti.ma/ → /ˈkti.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ktɛ̂ː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkte̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkti.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkti.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkti.ma/

Noun

κτῆμᾰ • (ktêma) n (genitive κτήμᾰτος); third declension

1. a piece of property, a possession

Declension

Third declension of τὸ κτῆμᾰ; τοῦ κτήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κτῆμᾰ tò ktêma	τὼ κτήμᾰτε tṑ ktḗmate	τᾰ̀ κτήμᾰτᾰ tà ktḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ κτήμᾰτος toû ktḗmatos	τοῖν κτημᾰ́τοιν toîn ktēmátoin	τῶν κτημᾰ́των tôn ktēmátōn
Dative	τῷ κτήμᾰτῐ tôi ktḗmati	τοῖν κτημᾰ́τοιν toîn ktēmátoin	τοῖς κτήμᾰσῐ / κτήμᾰσῐν toîs ktḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ κτῆμᾰ tò ktêma	τὼ κτήμᾰτε tṑ ktḗmate	τᾰ̀ κτήμᾰτᾰ tà ktḗmata
Vocative	κτῆμᾰ ktêma	κτήμᾰτε ktḗmate	κτήμᾰτᾰ ktḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κτῆμα εἰς ἀεί (ktêma eis aeí)

Descendants

• Greek: κτήμα (ktíma)

References

• “κτῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κτῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • acquisition idem, page 9.
  • jewel idem, page 463.
  • possession idem, page 628.
• “κτῆμα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011