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τεκμήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεκμήριον τεκμήριου

Structure: τεκμηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: tekmai/romai

Sense

  1. a sure signs. or token
  2. a positive proof, now the proof of it is this

Declension

Second 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

  • τό τε οὖν ἐπιχειροίην καὶ τραποίμην καὶ εἰσπλευσοίμην ἐν ἑνὶ χωρίῳ κείμενα καὶ τῶν κώλων τριῶν ὄντων τὸ μῆκοσ ἴσον ὑπάρχον τεκμήρια τῆσ Ἰσοκράτουσ κατασκευῆσ ἐστι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 20 1:1)
  • τοῦ μὲν δὴ σώματοσ ταῦτά τισ ἂν δοκεῖ μοι ἐπισκοπῶν ἀποχρῶντα τεκμήρια ποιεῖσθαι ἐσ γενναιότητα, καὶ τὰ ἐναντία τοῦ ἐναντίου. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 6 3:1)
  • ἃ δ’ εἶδον αὐτόσ, τάδε φράσω τεκμήρια· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 9:28)
  • ἃ [χρ]ὴ τεκμήρια ὑμῖν ε[ἶν]αι εἰσ τοῦτον τὸν ἀγῶνα, ὡσ ψευδεῖσ κατ’ ἐμοῦ <αἱ> αἰτίαι εἰσίν. (Hyperides, Speeches, 25:2)
  • ὡσ δ’ οὐχὶ θεοὶ τοίνυν ἦρχον τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὸ παλαιόν, ἀλλ’ ὄρνιθεσ, κἀβασίλευον, πόλλ’ ἐστὶ τεκμήρια τούτων. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, epirrheme21)

Synonyms

  1. a sure signs

Related

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

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