κτίσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

κτῐ́ζω (ktĭ́zō, “found, build”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs). Cognate with Sanskrit क्षितिज (kṣitija).

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 • (ktĭ́sĭs) 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
      • The Gospel of Mark 10:6
        • The Gospel of Mark 13:19
2. created thing, creature
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Judith 9.12
   • 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 ktĭ́sĭs	τὼ κτῐ́σει tṑ ktĭ́sei	αἱ κτῐ́σεις hai ktĭ́seis
Genitive	τῆς κτῐ́σεως tês ktĭ́seōs	τοῖν κτῐσέοιν toîn ktĭséoin	τῶν κτῐ́σεων tôn ktĭ́seōn
Dative	τῇ κτῐ́σει têi ktĭ́sei	τοῖν κτῐσέοιν toîn ktĭséoin	ταῖς κτῐ́σεσῐ / κτῐ́σεσῐν taîs ktĭ́sesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κτῐ́σῐν tḕn ktĭ́sĭn	τὼ κτῐ́σει tṑ ktĭ́sei	τᾱ̀ς κτῐ́σεις tā̀s ktĭ́seis
Vocative	κτῐ́σῐ ktĭ́sĭ	κτῐ́σει ktĭ́sei	κτῐ́σεις ktĭ́seis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (an easy achievement): πρᾶξῐς (prâxĭs)

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.