κατοχ-ή (katoche)

Where it lives

Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

κατοχ-ή · katoch-ē — LSJ

holding fast, detention, detention, arrest

holding fast, detention, τινὸς ἐν Σούσοισι Hdt. 5.35; of detention by the god in the Sarapeum, UPZ 5.3, 59.8, al. (ii B.C.), cf. Man. 1.239 (pl.); arrest, PAmh. 2.80.9 (iii A.D.), Cod.Just. 1.4.22.1; ἡ πρὸς τὸ χρέος κ. PSI 4.282.28 (ii A.D.).

2 hindrance, delay

hindrance, delay, ἀνείρξεις καὶ κ. Plu. Gen.Socr. 2.584e, cf. Vett.Val. 43.17.

3 retention, holding, retention

retention, τοῦ πνεύματος holding the breath, Gal. 6.161, Alex.Aphr. Pr. 1.47; retention of waste products, Gal. 8.440.

4 retention

retention in memory, Corn. ND 14; μνήμη καὶ κ. Plot. 4.3.29: pl., τὰς μνήμας κ. μαθημάτων καὶ αἰσθήσεων εἶναι Id. 4.6.1.

5 sequestration, lien, charge

sequestration of property, ἐν κ. PTeb. 143 (ii B.C.), cf. PRyl. 174.23 (ii A.D.), etc.; lien, charge, καθαρὸς ἀπὸ πάσης κ. POxy. 483.26 (ii A.D.), etc.

II possession, mental grasp

possession, Sm. Ca. 8.11; ἐν κ. ποιεῖσθαι Men. Prot. p.30 D.; = Lat. lonorum possessio, BGU 140.24 (ii A.D.); mental grasp, κοινῶν τινων Phld. Rh. 1.71 S.

2 possession by a spirit, inspiration

possession by a spirit, inspiration, κ. καὶ ἐνθουσιασμοί Plu. Alex. 2; πάντα ἐν τῇ κ. ἀληθεύειν Arr. An. 4.13.5.

3 catalepsy, stiffness

catalepsy, Gal. 9.189, 10.932; κ. τῶν ἄρθρων stiffness, Asclep. ap. eund. 13.967.

In the wild

κατοχὴν · katochēn Herodotus, Histories 5.35.4 (DIORISIS sentence 5594)
κατοχὴν · katochēn Plotinus, Enneads 4.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2694)
κατοχὰς · katochas Plotinus, Enneads 4.6 (DIORISIS sentence 3255)
κατοχὰς · katochas Plotinus, Enneads 4.6 (DIORISIS sentence 3221)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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