κατοίκισις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κατοικίζω (katoikízō, “establish a colony”) +‎ -σις (-sis, “A suffix added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or proces”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tǒi̯.ki.sis/ → /kaˈty.ci.sis/ → /kaˈti.ci.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tǒi̯.ki.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈty.ki.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈty.ci.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈty.ci.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈti.ci.sis/

Noun

κᾰτοίκῐσῐς • (katoíkisis) f (genitive κᾰτοικίσεως); third declension

1. a settlement, colony

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κᾰτοίκῐσῐς; τῆς κᾰτοικῐ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰτοίκῐσῐς hē katoíkisis	τὼ κᾰτοικῐ́σει tṑ katoikísei	αἱ κᾰτοικῐ́σεις hai katoikíseis
Genitive	τῆς κᾰτοικῐ́σεως tês katoikíseōs	τοῖν κᾰτοικῐσέοιν toîn katoikiséoin	τῶν κᾰτοικῐ́σεων tôn katoikíseōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰτοικῐ́σει têi katoikísei	τοῖν κᾰτοικῐσέοιν toîn katoikiséoin	ταῖς κᾰτοικῐ́σεσῐ / κᾰτοικῐ́σεσῐν taîs katoikísesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰτοίκῐσῐν tḕn katoíkisin	τὼ κᾰτοικῐ́σει tṑ katoikísei	τᾱ̀ς κᾰτοικῐ́σεις tā̀s katoikíseis
Vocative	κᾰτοίκῐσῐ katoíkisi	κᾰτοικῐ́σει katoikísei	κᾰτοικῐ́σεις katoikíseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κατοίκισις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press