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

  • ἢ οὐκ ἐννοεῖσ ὅτι ὁ μὲν γεωργὸσ γεωργεῖ οὐ τοῦ γεωργεῖν ἕνεκα καὶ ὁ τέκτων τεκταίνεται οὐχὶ τοῦ τεκταίνεσθαι ἕνεκα, ὁ δὲ παράσιτοσ οὐχ ἕτερον μέν τι διώκει, ἀλλὰ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ ἔργον μὲν ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ καὶ οὗ ἕνεκα γίγνεται; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 14:5)
  • ἐκεῖνο, ὦ Τιμόκλεισ, ὃ πάλαι ἐγὼ ἐπόθουν ἀκοῦσαί σου, ὅπωσ ἐπείσθησ οἰέσθαι προνοεῖν τοὺσ θεοὺσ ἡ τάξισ με πρῶτον τῶν γινομένων ἔπεισεν, ὁ ἥλιοσ ἀεὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν ἰὼν καὶ σελήνη κατὰ ταὐτὰ καὶ ὡρ͂αι τρεπόμεναι καὶ φυτὰ φυόμενα καὶ ζῷα γεννώμενα καὶ αὐτὰ ταῦτα οὕτωσ εὐμηχάνωσ κατεσκευασμένα ὡσ τρέφεσθαι καὶ κινεῖσθαι καὶ ἐννοεῖν καὶ βαδίζειν καὶ τεκταίνεσθαι καὶ σκυτοτομεῖν καὶ τἆλλα· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 38:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ἄρα διὰ τὴν τοῦ τεκταίνεσθαι; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 2 23:7)
  • ἐοίκε, φασίν, τὰ μὲν μέγιστα αὐτῶν καὶ κάλλιστα ἀπεργάζεσθαι φύσιν καὶ τύχην, τὰ δὲ σμικρότερα τέχνην, ἣν δὴ παρὰ φύσεωσ λαμβάνουσαν τὴν τῶν μεγάλων καὶ πρώτων γένεσιν ἔργων, πλάττειν καὶ τεκταίνεσθαι πάντα τὰ σμικρότερα, ἃ δὴ τεχνικὰ πάντεσ προσαγορεύομεν. (Plato, Laws, book 10 28:3)
  • τὸ δέ γε ἦν ἄρα, ὦ Γλαύκων ‐ δι’ ὃ καὶ ὠφελεῖ ‐ εἴδωλόν τι τῆσ δικαιοσύνησ, τὸ τὸν μὲν σκυτοτομικὸν φύσει ὀρθῶσ ἔχειν σκυτοτομεῖν καὶ ἄλλο μηδὲν πράττειν, τὸν δὲ τεκτονικὸν τεκταίνεσθαι, καὶ τἆλλα δὴ οὕτωσ. (Plato, Republic, book 4 558:1)

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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