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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καλλιτεχνία καλλιτεχνίᾱ καλλιτεχνίαι
Genitive καλλιτεχνίᾱς καλλιτεχνίαιν καλλιτεχνιῶν
Dative καλλιτεχνίᾱͅ καλλιτεχνίαιν καλλιτεχνίαις
Accusative καλλιτεχνίᾱν καλλιτεχνίᾱ καλλιτεχνίᾱς
Vocative καλλιτεχνίᾱ καλλιτεχνίᾱ καλλιτεχνίαι

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

  • ἐοίκε δὲ καὶ αὐτὴ τὴν ἑαυτῆσ καλλιτεχνίαν συνορᾶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 17 2:2)
  • ἀπηλλαγμένοι γὰρ οἱ δημιουργοὶ τῶν ἀχρήστων ἐν τοῖσ ἀναγκαίοισ ἐπεδείκνυντο τὴν καλλιτεχνίαν. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 9 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. beauty of workmanship

Similar forms

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

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