κτήτωρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κτάομαι (ktáomai, “I possess”) +‎ -τωρ (-tōr, “-er”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ktɛ̌ː.tɔːr/ → /ˈkti.tor/ → /ˈkti.tor/

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

Noun

κτήτωρ • (ktḗtōr) m (genitive κτήτορος); third declension

1. owner, possessor
   • Acts, c. 110 CE :

     οὐδέ γὰρ ἐνδεής τις ὑπῇρχεν ἐν αὐτοῖς· ὅσοι γὰρ κτήτορες χωρίων ἢ οἰκιῶν ὑπῆρχον πωλοῦντες ἔφερον τὰς τιμὰς τῶν πιπρασκομένων

     oudé gàr endeḗs tis hupêirkhen en autoîs; hósoi gàr ktḗtores khōríōn ḕ oikiôn hupêrkhon pōloûntes épheron tàs timàs tôn pipraskoménōn

     Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ κτήτωρ; τοῦ κτήτορος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κτήτωρ ho ktḗtōr	τὼ κτήτορε tṑ ktḗtore	οἱ κτήτορες hoi ktḗtores
Genitive	τοῦ κτήτορος toû ktḗtoros	τοῖν κτητόροιν toîn ktētóroin	τῶν κτητόρων tôn ktētórōn
Dative	τῷ κτήτορῐ tôi ktḗtori	τοῖν κτητόροιν toîn ktētóroin	τοῖς κτήτορσῐ / κτήτορσῐν toîs ktḗtorsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κτήτορᾰ tòn ktḗtora	τὼ κτήτορε tṑ ktḗtore	τοὺς κτήτορᾰς toùs ktḗtoras
Vocative	κτῆτορ ktêtor	κτήτορε ktḗtore	κτήτορες ktḗtores
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Russian: кти́тор (ktítor)

References

• “κτήτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2935 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible