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

  • καὶ ποιήσεισ αὐτὸ ἔλαιον χρῖσμα ἅγιον, μύρον μυρεψικὸν τέχνῃ μυρεψοῦ. ἔλαιον χρῖσμα ἅγιον ἔσται. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 30:25)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ τάχα τῷ κρατοῦντι βουλόμενοσ ἀρέσαι, ἐξεβιάσατο τῇ τέχνῃ τὴν ὁμοιότητα ἐπὶ τὸ κάλλιον. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:19)
  • ὅτεπερ καὶ σαφέστατα ὤφθη ὡσ οὐχ ἡ λύρα ἡ θέλγουσα ἦν, ἀλλὰ ἡ τέχνη καὶ ἡ ᾠδή, ἃ μόνα ἐξαίρετα τῷ Ὀρφεῖ παρὰ τῆσ μητρὸσ ὑπῆρχεν· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 12:3)
  • καὶ μὴν οὐ κατά γε σκιὰν μόνην οὐδὲ κατὰ πλατάνου κάλλοσ ἡ ὑποδοχή, οὐδ’ ἂν τὴν ἐπὶ τῷ Ἰλισσῷ καταλιπὼν τὴν ’ βασιλέωσ λέγῃσ τὴν χρυσῆν ἐκείνησ μὲν γὰρ ἐν τῇ πολυτελείᾳ μόνῃ τὸ θαῦμα, τέχνη δὲ ἢ κάλλοσ ἢ τέρψισ ἢ τὸ σύμμετρον ἢ τὸ εὔρυθμον οὐ συνείργαστο οὐδὲ κατεμέμικτο τῷ χρυσῷ, ἀλλ’ ἦν βαρβαρικὸν τὸ θέαμα, πλοῦτοσ μόνον καὶ φθόνοσ τῶν ἰδόντων καὶ εὐδαιμονισμὸσ τῶν ἐχόντων ἔπαινοσ δὲ οὐδαμοῦ προσῆν. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 5:1)
  • Ἁρμονίδησ ὁ αὐλητὴσ ἤρετό ποτε Τιμόθεον διδάσκαλον αὐτοῦ ὄντα, Εἰπέ μοι, ἔφη, ὦ Τιμόθεε, πῶσ ἄν ἔνδοξοσ γενοίμην ἐπὶ τῇ τέχνῃ; (Lucian, Harmonides 1:1)

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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