Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄτεχνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄτεχνος ἀτέχνου

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + τεχν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/xnh

Sense

  1. without art, ignorant of the rules of art, unskilled, empirical

Examples

  • ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἄτεχνα καὶ οὐδὲν ἐμοῦ συμβούλου δεόμενα· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 34 1:1)
  • ἄτεχνα δὲ λέγω ὅσα μὴ δι’ ἡμῶν πεπόρισται ἀλλὰ προϋπῆρχεν, οἱο͂ν μάρτυρεσ βάσανοι συγγραφαὶ καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα, ἔντεχνα δὲ ὅσα διὰ τῆσ μεθόδου καὶ δι’ ἡμῶν κατασκευασθῆναι δυνατόν, ὥστε δεῖ τούτων τοῖσ μὲν χρήσασθαι, τὰ δὲ εὑρεῖν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 2 2:2)
  • καὶ πάντα ὀρθῶσ εἰπεῖν ἔστι πρότερον τῷ βιασθέντι περὶ τὸ τοιοῦτον πλὴν ὅτι νοσώδη καὶ ἄτεχνα πέπονθεν ὑπὸ τῶν βιασαμένων ἰατρῶν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 236:7)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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