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

  • τοῦτο πυθομένη ἡ Ναάμισ τεχνᾶται παρακατακλῖναι τὴν Ῥούθην αὐτῷ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 425:2)
  • καὶ ἡ μὲν ἐπὶ τούτοισ ἀνεγείρασα τὸν νεανίσκον καὶ τὸ αἰτηθὲν λαβοῦσα ἀργύριον οὐ τὰσ αὐτὰσ ὁδοὺσ ἐστέλλετο τοῖσ προδεδιακονημένοισ ὁρῶσα τῆσ γυναικὸσ τὸ μηδαμῶσ χρημάτων ἁλισκόμενον, εἰδυῖα δὲ αὐτὴν θεραπείᾳ τῆσ Ἴσιδοσ σφόδρα ὑπηγμένην τεχνᾶταί τι τοιόνδε. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 88:2)

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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