Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τεκταίνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεκταίνομαι

Structure: τεκταίν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: [0] Dep.

Sense

  1. to make, work, frame, to do joiners' work
  2. to devise, plan, contrive, they kept me

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • τεκταινόμενοσ ἀγαθὰ ζητεῖ χάριν ἀγαθήν, ἐκζητοῦντα δὲ κακά, καταλήψεται αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 11:26)
  • Αἔροποσ γὰρ ὁ Μακεδὼν τραπέζια μικρὰ καὶ λυχνίδια τεκταινόμενοσ, ὁπότε σχολάζοι, διῆγεν. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 20 2:1)
  • δεῖ γὰρ παρασκευασαμένουσ πράττειν, ἀλλὰ μὴ παρασκευάζεσθαι πράττοντασ, ὡσ Μύσων πρὸσ Χίλωνα τὸν σοφὸν εἰπεῖν λέγεται ἐν χειμῶνι θρίνακα τεκταινόμενοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 844)
  • δεῖ γὰρ παρασκευασαμένουσ πράττειν, ἀλλὰ μὴ παρασκευάζεσθαι πράττοντασ, ὡσ Μύσων πρὸσ Χίλωνα τὸν σοφὸν εἰπεῖν λέγεται ἐν χειμῶνι θρίνακα τεκταινόμενοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 84 1:2)
  • τόδε δ’ οὖν πάλιν ἐπισκεπτέον περὶ αὐτοῦ, πρὸσ πότερον τῶν παραδειγμάτων ὁ τεκταινόμενοσ αὐτὸν ἀπηργάζετο, πότερον πρὸσ τὸ κατὰ ταὐτὰ καὶ ὡσαύτωσ ἔχον ἢ πρὸσ τὸ γεγονόσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 71:3)

Synonyms

  1. to devise

Derived

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

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