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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

  • ἢ ὡσ ὀρνέου διαπτάντοσ ἀέρα οὐθὲν εὑρίσκεται τεκμήριον πορείασ, πληγῇ δὲ ταρσῶν μαστιζόμενον πνεῦμα κοῦφον καὶ σχιζόμενον βίᾳ ροίζου, κινουμένων πτερύγων διωδεύθη, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο οὐχ εὑρέθη σημεῖον ἐπιβάσεωσ ἐν αὐτῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 5:11)
  • πρὸσ μὲν γὰρ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἡμερωτέρα καὶ πραεῖά ἐστι καὶ παρόντων εἰρήνην ἄγει ἡ νόσοσ, ἂν δέ τινα ἰατρὸν ἴδῃ καὶ τοῦτ’ ἀκούσῃ μόνον, κατ’ ἐκείνου μάλιστα παροξύνεται, ὅπερ καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦ πονηρῶσ καὶ ἀνηκέστωσ ἔχειν ἐστὶ τεκμήριον. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 6:4)
  • τεκμήριον δὲ τῆσ γλυκύτητοσ εἰ τεκμηρίων δεῖ ἐπὶ τοῖσ αἰσθήσει φαινομένοισ, ὅτι πάντα τὰ βοσκήματα οἱ προσοικοῦντεσ τῇ θαλάσσῃ ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν κατάγουσιν καὶ ἀπ̓ αὐτῆσ ποτίζουσιν· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 8 5:1)
  • ἓν γὰρ οὐδὲν οὕτω τεκμήριον ἐσ ὠκύτητά τε καὶ γενναιότητα εὑρ́οισ ἂν ἐπιλεγόμενοσ ταὐτὸν ἐπὶ πάσῃ ἰδέᾳ κυνόσ, ὡσ τὸ μῆκοσ, καὶ τοὐναντίον τὴν βραχύτητα ἐσ τὸ βραδὺ καὶ ἀγεννέσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 4 2:2)
  • καὶ τοῦτο τεκμήριον ποιητέον ὅτι ἐκράτησεν ἡ κύων τοῦ λαγώ· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 16 3:2)

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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