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τέκτων

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέκτων τέκτονος

Structure: τεκτων (Stem)

Etym.: ti/ktw

Sense

  1. one who works with wood: carpenter, builder
  2. any craftsman (but generally opposed to metalworker, smith)
  3. a master of any art, such as gymnastics, poetry, or medicine
  4. author, creator, planner

Declension

Third 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

  • πλανώμενοι τεκταίνουσι κακά, ἔλεον δὲ καὶ ἀλήθειαν τεκταίνουσιν ἀγαθοί. οὐκ ἐπίστανται ἔλεον καὶ πίστιν τέκτονεσ κακῶν, ἐλεημοσύναι δὲ καὶ πίστεισ παρὰ τέκτοσιν ἀγαθοῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 14:22)
  • γεωργοῖσ δὲ πρασόκουρον τέκτοσιν ἀξίνη· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 203 1:2)
  • ὅτ’ οὖν δὴ τὰ νῦν οἱᾶ τέκτοσιν ἡμῖν ὕλη παράκειται τὰ τῶν αἰτίων γένη διυλισμένα, ἐξ ὧν τὸν ἐπίλοιπον λόγον δεῖ συνυφανθῆναι, πάλιν ἐπ’ ἀρχὴν ἐπανέλθωμεν διὰ βραχέων, ταχύ τε εἰσ ταὐτὸν πορευθῶμεν ὅθεν δεῦρο ἀφικόμεθα, καὶ τελευτὴν ἤδη κεφαλήν τε τῷ μύθῳ πειρώμεθα ἁρμόττουσαν ἐπιθεῖναι τοῖσ πρόσθεν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 336:1)
  • ἐθέλειν μὲν Ἀλέξανδρον καταλείπειν αὐτὸν τὰ σημεῖα τοῦ τειχισμοῦ τοῖσ τέκτοσιν, οὐκ εἶναι δὲ ὅτῳ τὴν γῆν ἐπιγράψουσιν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 2 1:2)

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