κτίσις

κτίσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

κτῐ́ζω (ktízō, “found, build”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ktí.sis/ → /ˈkti.sis/ → /ˈkti.sis/

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

Noun

κτῐ́σῐς • (ktísis) f (genitive κτῐ́σεως or κτῐ́σιος); third declension

1. founding, settling
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.5
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 12.190
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 9.1.4
   1. an easy achievement
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.83
   2. creation
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 1:20
      • New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 10:6
        • New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 13:19
2. created thing, creature
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Judith 9.12
   • New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 16:15
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 8:19
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Tobit 8.5
3. authority created or ordained
   • New Testament, First Epistle of Peter 2:13

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κτῐ́σῐς; τῆς κτῐ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • creation idem, page 183.
  • establishment idem, page 283.
  • foundation idem, page 341.
  • settlement idem, page 758.