Ancient Greek

Noun

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

1. preparation, construction, fitting out
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.5
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 455.b
   • 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
2. 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 923.d
   • 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
3. the state, condition, or constitution of a thing
   • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 214
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 544.e
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 842.c
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 739.a
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 736.b
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 477.b
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.837
4. 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
5. (logic) constructive reasoning
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 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
6. (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 1.199.S
7. (grammar) construction
   • Archim., Sph.Cyl. 2.4
   • 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements 203.F
   • Papp. 174.17
8. (technical term) a system of gymnastic exercise
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.169

Declension

Antonyms

• (permanent or fixed assets): παρασκευή ‎(paraskeuḗ)
• (logic: constructive reasoning): ἀνασκευή ‎(anaskeuḗ)
• (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

Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰσκευή ‎(kataskeuḗ)

Noun

κατασκευή • ‎(kataskeví) f ‎(plural κατασκευές)

1. construction, constructing
2. structure, design

Declension