κατασκευή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

κᾰτᾰ- (kata-) +‎ σκευή (skeuḗ)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tas.keu̯.ɛ̌ː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.tas.keˈwe̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.tas.ceˈβi/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.tas.ceˈvi/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.tas.ceˈvi/

Noun

κᾰτᾰσκευή • (kataskeuḗ) f (genitive κᾰτᾰσκευῆς); first declension

preparation, construction, fitting out
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.5
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 455b
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.21.1
1. unpacking
  - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.5.5
2. training
  - Stoic. 3.89
permanent or fixed assets, fixtures, plant
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.10
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.16
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 923d
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 4.26
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 7.52
1. (but also) any furniture or fittings
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.82
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.31
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.46
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 47.54
  - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 9.5
the state, condition, or constitution of a thing
- 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 214
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 544e
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 842c
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 739a
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 736b
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 477b
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.837
a device, a trick
- 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 2.1
- 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 1.34
- 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 5.38
(logic) constructive reasoning
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Commentaries on the Attic Orators: On Lysias 24
- 161 CE – 180 CE, Hermogenes, On Rhetorical Exercises 5
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.14.4
- 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 11.2
- Quint. 2.4.18
(rhetoric):
1. artistic treatment
  - 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 1.2.6
  - 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 1
2. manipulation
  - 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 15
  - 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 16
3. elaboration
  - 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Letter to Pompey 2
4. correct style
  - Diocl., Stoic. 3.214
5. technical resources
  - 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 1.199S
(grammar) construction
- c. 225 BCE, Archimedes, On the Sphere and Cylinder 2.4
- 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements 203F
- Papp. 174.17
(technical term) a system of gymnastic exercise
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.169

Declension

First declension of ἡ κᾰτᾰσκευή; τῆς κᾰτᾰσκευῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰτᾰσκευή hē kataskeuḗ	τὼ κᾰτᾰσκευᾱ́ tṑ kataskeuā́	αἱ κᾰτᾰσκευαί hai kataskeuaí
Genitive	τῆς κᾰτᾰσκευῆς tês kataskeuês	τοῖν κᾰτᾰσκευαῖν toîn kataskeuaîn	τῶν κᾰτᾰσκευῶν tôn kataskeuôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰτᾰσκευῇ têi kataskeuêi	τοῖν κᾰτᾰσκευαῖν toîn kataskeuaîn	ταῖς κᾰτᾰσκευαῖς taîs kataskeuaîs
Accusative	τὴν κᾰτᾰσκευήν tḕn kataskeuḗn	τὼ κᾰτᾰσκευᾱ́ tṑ kataskeuā́	τᾱ̀ς κᾰτᾰσκευᾱ́ς tā̀s kataskeuā́s
Vocative	κᾰτᾰσκευή kataskeuḗ	κᾰτᾰσκευᾱ́ kataskeuā́	κᾰτᾰσκευαί kataskeuaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “permanent or fixed assets”): παρασκευή (paraskeuḗ)
(antonym(s) of “logic: constructive reasoning”): ἀνασκευή (anaskeuḗ)
(antonym(s) of “rhetoric: correct style”): ἰδιωτισμός (idiōtismós)

Descendants

Greek: κατασκευή (kataskeví)
Latin: catasceua

References

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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰσκευή (kataskeuḗ).

Noun

κατασκευή • (kataskeví) f (plural κατασκευές)

Declension

declension of κατασκευή

case \ number	singular	plural
nominative	κατασκευή •	κατασκευές •
genitive	κατασκευής •	κατασκευών •
accusative	κατασκευή •	κατασκευές •
vocative	κατασκευή •	κατασκευές •

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