English
ktistic
Ktistic comes from Ancient Greek κτίσις ‘founding, settling’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tḱey-‘to settle’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκτῐ́ζω‘found, build’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEκτίσιςktísis‘founding, settling’
- Englishearliest quotation 1979ktistic
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tḱey-‘to settle’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκτῐ́ζω‘found, build’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEκτίσιςktísis‘founding, settling’
- Englishearliest quotation 1979ktistic
Earliest quotation: 1979, Francis Cairns, Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome: “The principal ktistic features of Tibullus 2.5 are: [...]”
Formed from -ic
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- ‘to settle’
site, post, position, situation, purpose, positive, suppose, homeless, opponent, compound, propose, expose, impose, hamlet, bohemian, compose, repository, consolation, dispose, proponent, exponent, homely, posit, expound, situate, pone, hame, situs, 68 more
Today it means
adj Concerned with the founding of a city
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- / ktistic