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κατασκεύ-ασμα

kataskeuasma

δύναμις (forme tardive tirée de ἀδρανής 3)

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What it meant

1. κατασκεύασμα · kataskeuasma — Chantraine

κατασκεύασμα, δύναμις (forme tardive tirée de ἀδρανής 3) ; on a voulu y trouver l'origine de grec moderne δράνα «treille » (ἢ), Bogiatzides, ᾽Αθηνᾶ 27, 1915, suppl. 125 sq. Et.: Nous avons un thème de présent ‘“dr-e2,- > δρᾶ-, à côté d’un thème en nasale Bpav- dans δραένω (cf. βαίνω, etc.) que l'on soupçonne d'être secondaire. La racine est homonyme de celle de διδράσκω et cette homonymie a pu influer sur l’histoire … — [Chantraine, s.v. κατασκεύασμα, p. 311]

2. κατασκεύ-ασμα · kataskeu-asma — LSJ

that which is prepared, made, work of art, apparatus, building, structure, engines of war, furniture

that which is prepared or made, work of art, τὰ Κορίνθια κ. Hippoloch. ap. Ath. 4.128d, cf. Plb. 4.18.8, Aristeas 52, J. BJ 7.5.5, Arr. Epict. 2.19.26; surgical apparatus, Orib. 49.24.2; esp. building, structure, D. 23.207, SIG 330.39 (pl., Ilium, iv B.C.), Plb. 10.27.9, D.H. 3.27, D.S. 1.50; οἰκητήριον κ. Cleanth.Stoic. 1.132; θεωρητὸν κ., of the world, Secund. Sent. 1: in pl., engines of war, Plb. 1.48.5; furniture, ἱεροῦ SIG 330.4 (Ilium, iv B.C.).

II arrangement, contrivance

arrangement, contrivance, D. 23.13; τὸ κ. τῶν συσσιτίων Arist. Pol. 1271a33; τὰ [τυραννικὰ] κ. ib. 1319b27; σοφιστοῦ Phld. Rh. 1.183 S.; ἐκ κατασκευάσματος, Lat. ex composito, D.C. 52.7.

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