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τεκτοσύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεκτοσύνη

Structure: τεκτοσυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from te/ktwn

Sense

  1. the art of a joiner, carpentry, unhonoured

Declension

First 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

  • Ὀρφεὺσ μὲν κιθάρᾳ πλεῖστον γέρασ εἵλετο θνητῶν, Νέστωρ δὲ γλώσσησ ἡδυλόγου σοφίῃ, τεκτοσύνῃ δ’ ἐπέων πολυίστωρ θεῖοσ Ὅμηροσ, Τηλεφάνησ δ’ αὐλοῖσ, οὗ τάφοσ ἐστὶν ὅδε. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1591)

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

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