Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τεχνάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεχνάομαι

Structure: τεχνά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: te/xnh

Sense

  1. to make by art, to execute skilfully
  2. to be made by art
  3. to contrive or execute cunningly, contrives, to contrive how

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • ἐθαυμάζετο καὶ Ξενοφῶν ὁ θαυματοποιόσ, ὃσ μαθητὴν κατέλιπε Κρατισθένη τὸν Φλιάσιον ὃσ πῦρ τε αὐτόματον ἐποίει ἀναφύεσθαι καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ φάσματα ἐτεχνᾶτο, ἀφ’ ὧν ἐξίστα τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν διάνοιαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 35 1:3)
  • ταῦτα μὲν δὴ οὐδὲ ἀρχὴν ἀποδέξαιτο ἄν τισ, ὡσ ὁ τοῦ Κυψέλου πρόγονοσ Κορίνθιόσ τε ὢν καὶ τὴν λάρνακα αὑτῷ ποιούμενοσ κτῆμα, ὁπόσα μὲν Κορινθίοισ ἦν ἐπιχώρια, ἑκὼν ὑπερέβαινεν, ἃ δὲ ξενικά τε καὶ οὐδὲ ἄλλωσ ἥκοντα ἐσ δόξαν, ἐτεχνᾶτο ἐπὶ τῇ λάρνακι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 18 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be made by art

  2. to contrive or execute cunningly

Derived

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

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