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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

  • αἰτία δ’ ἐστὶν ἡ τύχη ἐνίων μὲν καὶ ὧν αἱ τέχναι, πολλῶν δὲ καὶ ἀτέχνων, οἱο͂ν ὅσων ἡ φύσισ ἐνδέχεται δὲ καὶ παρὰ φύσιν εἶναι· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 17:2)
  • περὶ δὲ τῶν ἀτέχνων καλουμένων πίστεων ἐχόμενόν ἐστι τῶν εἰρημένων ἐπιδραμεῖν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 15 1:1)
  • περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν ἀτέχνων πίστεων εἰρήσθω τοσαῦτα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 15 33:6)
  • διαφέρει δὲ τούτων ἕτερα ἑτέρων τῷ τὰ μὲν ἀσφαλέστερα εἶναι, τὰ δὲ πλείω πορίζειν τὴν ἐπικαρπίαν, δεύτερον δὲ τοκισμόσ, τρίτον δὲ μισθαρνία ταύτησ δ’ ἡ μὲν τῶν βαναύσων τεχνῶν, ἡ δὲ τῶν ἀτέχνων καὶ τῷ σώματι μόνῳ χρησίμων· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 148:3)
  • βούλει οὖν ἐν τῷ Λυσίου λόγῳ ὃν φέρεισ, καὶ ἐν οἷσ ἡμεῖσ εἴπομεν ἰδεῖν τι ὧν φαμεν ἀτέχνων τε καὶ ἐντέχνων εἶναι; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 239:3)

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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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