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τεκτονικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεκτονικός τεκτονική τεκτονικόν

Structure: τεκτονικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/ktwn

Sense

  1. practised or skilled in building, a good carpenter or builder, joiners' work, carpentry

Examples

  • καὶ τεκτονικῆσ δὲ κατὰ ταὐτὰ οἰκία τε καὶ τεκτονικὴ τὸ μὲν ἔργον, τὸ δὲ δίδαγμα. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 18:4)
  • εἰ τύχοι μετά τινοσ βαδίζων ὁδόν, καὶ πρὸσ βασιλέα καὶ πρὸσ ἰδιώτην, καὶ πρὸσ ἐλεύθερον καὶ πρὸσ δοῦλον, καὶ αὐτὸν ἔνδοξον ὄντα καὶ βασιλέα καὶ αὖ πάλιν ἀγνοούμενον καὶ πτωχόν, καὶ πρὸσ ἄνδρα τε ὁμοίωσ καὶ γυναῖκα καὶ κόρην, ἔτι δὲ μάχεσθαι ἐπιστάμενον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἁπάντων ἔμπειρον, τεκτονικῆσ καὶ οἰκοδομίασ καὶ ναυπηγικῆσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 6:1)
  • πῶσ γὰρ ἂν τὸ λέχοσ ἐποίησεν ἀποκόψασ τόν τῆσ ἐλαίασ θαλλόν, εἰ μὴ τεκτονικῆσ ἐπιστήμων ἦν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 6:2)
  • Καὶ πότερον οἰεί τὸν ἔμπειρον τῆσ τεκτονικῆσ τέχνησ, εὐθύ τι ἐργάσασθαι βουλόμενον, ἑνὶ προσαρμόσαντα κανόνι καὶ μιᾷ στάθμῃ σταθμησάμενον ἥδιον ἔχειν καὶ πεποιθέναι περὶ τῆσ ὀρθότητοσ μᾶλλον ἢ πολλοῖσ τε καὶ ἀνωμάλοισ ξύλοισ ἀπευθύνοντα καὶ καταμετροῦντα; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, speech 60 39:3)
  • ὄχημα αὐτό που λέγομεν, οὐ πάνυ πολιτικῆσ ἔργον, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον πολὺ τεκτονικῆσ καὶ κεραμικῆσ καὶ χαλκοτυπικῆσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 187:3)

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

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