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

  • καθάπερ ξύλον τὸ ἦθοσ ἐκ καμπῆσ εἰσ τοὐναντίον ἀπειρίᾳ τοῦ κατορθοῦν διαστρέφοντεσ αἰσχίστη δὲ κολακείασ ἄρνησισ ἀνωφελῶσ λυπηρὸν εἶναι, καὶ κομιδῇ τινοσ ἀμούσου καὶ ἀτέχνου πρὸσ εὔνοιαν ὁμιλίασ ἀηδίᾳ καὶ χαλεπότητι φεύγειν τὸ ἀγεννὲσ ἐν φιλίᾳ καὶ ταπεινόν, ὥσπερ ἀπελεύθερον ἐν κωμῳδίᾳ τὴν κατηγορίαν ἰσηγορίασ ἀπόλαυσιν ἡγούμενον. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 25 13:1)
  • ἄλλωσ γοῦν θεωρεῖται ὑπὸ τεχνίτου εἰκὼν καὶ ἄλλωσ ὑπὸ ἀτέχνου. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 51:9)

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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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