# κατασκευή
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

κᾰτᾰ- (kata-) +‎ σκευή (skeuḗ)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.tas.keu̯.ɛ̌ː/ → /ka.tas.ceˈβi/ → /ka.tas.ceˈvi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ka.tas.keu̯.ɛ̌ː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ka.tas.keˈwe̝/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ka.tas.ceˈβi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ka.tas.ceˈvi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ka.tas.ceˈvi/

### Noun

κᾰτᾰσκευή • (kataskeuḗ) f (genitive κᾰτᾰσκευῆς); first declension
* preparation, construction, fitting out
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.5
** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 455b
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.21.1
** unpacking
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.5.5
** training
*** Stoic. 3.89
* 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 923d
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 4.26
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 7.52
** (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
* the state, condition, or constitution of a thing
** 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 214
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 544e
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 842c
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 739a
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 736b
** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 477b
** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.837
* 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
* (logic) constructive reasoning
** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Commentaries on the Attic Orators: 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
* (rhetoric):
** artistic treatment
*** 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 1.2.6
*** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 1
** 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
** elaboration
*** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Letter to Pompey 2
** correct style
*** Diocl., Stoic. 3.214
** technical resources
*** 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 1.199S
* (grammar) construction
** c. 225 BCE, Archimedes, On the Sphere and Cylinder 2.4
** 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements 203F
** Papp. 174.17
* (technical term) a system of gymnastic exercise
** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.169

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “permanent or fixed assets”): παρασκευή (paraskeuḗ)
* (antonym(s) of “logic: constructive reasoning”): ἀνασκευή (anaskeuḗ)
* (antonym(s) of “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

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰσκευή (kataskeuḗ). By surface analysis, κατα- (kata-) +‎ -σκευή (-skeví)

### Noun

κατασκευή • (kataskeví) f (plural κατασκευές)
* construction, constructing
* structure, design

#### Declension

| | singular | plural |
| nominative | κατασκευή • | κατασκευές • |
| genitive | κατασκευής • | κατασκευών • |
| accusative | κατασκευή • | κατασκευές • |
| vocative | κατασκευή • | κατασκευές • |