κεκτῆσθαι (kektesthai)

κεκτῆσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of κτάομαι, meaning “acquire, win; (perf.) possess”. It is the perfect middle/passive infinitive.

It can also be a form of κτέομαι, “acquire, win”.

Found 177 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.35.5: … κ ἠπειρώτιδος τῆς ξυμμαχίας διδομένης οὐχ ὁμοία ἡ ἀλλοτρίωσις, ἀλλὰ μάλιστα μέν, εἰ δύνασθε, μηδένα ἄλλον ἐᾶν κεκτῆσθαι ναῦς, εἰ δὲ μή, ὅστις ἐχυρώτατος, τοῦτον φίλον ἔχειν.

Plato, Theaetetus 197: … εται τῷ κεκτῆσθαι τὸ ἔχειν. οἷον ἱμάτιον πριάμενός τις καὶ ἐγκρατὴς ὢν μὴ φορῶν, ἔχειν μὲν οὐκ ἂν αὐτὸν αὐτό, κεκτῆσθαί γε μὴν φαῖμεν. ὀρθῶς γε. ὅρα δὴ καὶ ἐπιστήμην εἰ δυνατὸν οὕτω κεκτημένον μὴ ἔχειν, ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ εἴ τις ὄρνιθας …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 36.21.2: ὄνομα αὐτοὺς μέγα κεκτήσθαι· ἦγόν τε καὶ ἔφερον πρώτους μὲν καὶ μάλιστα τοὺς πλέοντας (οὐδὲ γὰρ τὴν χειμερινὴν ὥραν ἀσφαλῆ αὐτοῖς παρεῖχο …

All forms of κτάομαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.