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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

  • καὶ ἔστιν φύσεωσ τὸ ὑποκριτικὸν εἶναι, καὶ ἀτεχνότερον, περὶ δὲ τὴν λέξιν ἔντεχνον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 1 7:2)
  • Σιδηρίοισι δὲ χρὴ ταῦτα καίειν, μὴ παχέσι, μηδὲ λίην φαλακροῖσιν, ἀλλὰ προμήκεσι ̔ταχυπορώτερα γὰῤ, καὶ τῇ χειρὶ ἐπερείδειν‧ χρὴ δὲ καὶ διαφανέσι καίειν, ὡσ ὅτι τάχιστα περαιωθῇ κατὰ δύναμιν‧ τὰ γὰρ παχέα, βραδέωσ περαιούμενα, πλατυτέρασ τὰσ ἐκπτώσιασ τῶν ἐσχαρῶν ποιέεται, καὶ κίνδυνοσ ἂν εἰή ξυῤῬαγῆναι τὰσ ὠτειλασ‧ καὶ κάκιον μὲν οὐδὲν ἂν εἰή, αἴσχιον δὲ καὶ ἀτεχνότερον. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 11.4)

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

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