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πολυτεχνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυτεχνία

Structure: πολυτεχνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from polu/texnos

Sense

  1. skill in many arts

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

  • ὁ δὲ δὴ τὴν καλουμένην πολυμαθίαν τε καὶ πολυτεχνίαν κεκτημένοσ, ὀρφανὸσ δὲ ὢν ταύτησ τῆσ ἐπιστήμησ, ἀγόμενοσ δὲ ὑπὸ μιᾶσ ἑκάστησ τῶν ἄλλων, ἆρ’ οὐχὶ τῷ ὄντι δικαίωσ πολλῷ χειμῶνι χρήσεται, ἅτε οἶμαι ἄνευ κυβερνήτου διατελῶν ἐν πελάγει, χρόνον οὐ μακρὸν βίου θέων; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 55:1)

Synonyms

  1. skill in many arts

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

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