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 • (kătoíkĭsĭs) 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 kătoíkĭsĭs	τὼ κᾰτοικῐ́σει tṑ kătoikĭ́sei	αἱ κᾰτοικῐ́σεις hai kătoikĭ́seis
Genitive	τῆς κᾰτοικῐ́σεως tês kătoikĭ́seōs	τοῖν κᾰτοικῐσέοιν toîn kătoikĭséoin	τῶν κᾰτοικῐ́σεων tôn kătoikĭ́seōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰτοικῐ́σει têi kătoikĭ́sei	τοῖν κᾰτοικῐσέοιν toîn kătoikĭséoin	ταῖς κᾰτοικῐ́σεσῐ / κᾰτοικῐ́σεσῐν taîs kătoikĭ́sesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰτοίκῐσῐν tḕn kătoíkĭsĭn	τὼ κᾰτοικῐ́σει tṑ kătoikĭ́sei	τᾱ̀ς κᾰτοικῐ́σεις tā̀s kătoikĭ́seis
Vocative	κᾰτοίκῐσῐ kătoíkĭsĭ	κᾰτοικῐ́σει kătoikĭ́sei	κᾰτοικῐ́σεις kătoikĭ́seis
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