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καλλιτεχνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλλιτεχνία

Structure: καλλιτεχνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: te/xnh

Sense

  1. beauty of workmanship

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀναβαινόντων δὲ τῶν ἔργων ὑπερηφάνων μὲν μεγέθει, μορφῇ δ’ ἀμιμήτων καὶ χάριτι, τῶν δημιουργῶν ἁμιλλωμένων ὑπερβάλλεσθαι τὴν δημιουργίαν τῇ καλλιτεχνίᾳ, μάλιστα θαυμάσιον ἦν τὸ τάχοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 13 1:1)
  • ἥ τε μουσικὴ περί τε ὄρχησιν οὖσα καὶ ῥυθμὸν καὶ μέλοσ ἡδονῇ τε ἅμα καὶ καλλιτεχνίᾳ πρὸσ τὸ θεῖον ἡμᾶσ συνάπτει κατὰ τοιαύτην αἰτίαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 16:7)

Synonyms

  1. beauty of workmanship

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

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