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ktistic

ktistic adjective: concerned with the founding of a city.

Adjective

ktistic (not generally comparable, comparative more ktistic, superlative most ktistic)

  1. (not comparable, usually) Concerned with the founding of a city
    • The principal ktistic features of Tibullus 2.5 are: [...]1979, Francis Cairns, Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome, Cambridge University Press, page 70
    • The Aeneid may be categorized as a Hellenistic 'ktistic' epic, an aetiological narrative of the 'foundation' (ktisis) of a city.2005, Philip Hardie, “Narrative Epic”, in Stephen Harrison, editor, A Companion to Latin Literature, page 88

Forms of ktistic

comparativemore ktistic
superlativemost ktistic

Origin of ktistic

From Ancient Greek κτίσις (ktísis, “founding, settling”) + -ic.

Questions about ktistic

What does ktistic mean?
Ktistic means concerned with the founding of a city.
What part of speech is ktistic?
Ktistic is an adjective.

Words near ktistic in the dictionary

  1. kthnxbye
  2. kthx
  3. kthxbai
  4. kthxbye
  5. ktipiti
  6. ktistic
  7. ktitor
  8. ktitors
  9. ktiv male
  10. KTM
  11. KTP

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