κτίσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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κτῐ́ζω (ktízō, “found, build”) + -σῐς (-sis)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ktí.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkti.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkti.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkti.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkti.sis/
Noun
κτῐ́σῐς • (ktísis) f (genitive κτῐ́σεως or κτῐ́σιος); third declension
- founding, settling
- an easy achievement
- creation
- New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 1:20
- created thing, creature
- New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 8:19
- authority created or ordained
- New Testament, First Epistle of Peter 2:13
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κτῐ́σῐς hē ktísis |
τὼ κτῐ́σει tṑ ktísei |
αἱ κτῐ́σεις hai ktíseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κτῐ́σεως tês ktíseōs |
τοῖν κτῐσέοιν toîn ktiséoin |
τῶν κτῐ́σεων tôn ktíseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κτῐ́σει têi ktísei |
τοῖν κτῐσέοιν toîn ktiséoin |
ταῖς κτῐ́σεσῐ / κτῐ́σεσῐν taîs ktísesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κτῐ́σῐν tḕn ktísin |
τὼ κτῐ́σει tṑ ktísei |
τᾱ̀ς κτῐ́σεις tā̀s ktíseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | κτῐ́σῐ ktísi |
κτῐ́σει ktísei |
κτῐ́σεις ktíseis | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (an easy achievement): πρᾶξῐς (prâxis)
Descendants
- English: autoctisis
References
- “κτίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κτίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κτίσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κτίσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2937 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- creation idem, page 183.
- establishment idem, page 283.
- foundation idem, page 341.
- settlement idem, page 758.