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

  • κἀγὼ δρομαία βᾶσ’, ὅσονπερ ἔσθενον, τῷ παιδὶ φράζω τῆσ τεχνωμένησ τάδε. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode, dialogue 1:14)
  • ὥσπερ γὰρ τὸ τοῖσ ἀδικοῦσιν ἐπεξιέναι καὶ πολεμεῖν διὰ πάντων αἱρεῖσθαι οὐδ’ ἂν εἷσ φαίη μὰ τοὺσ θεοὺσ μὴ οὐχὶ τιμῶντοσ τοῦτ’ εἶναι τοὺσ νόμουσ, οὕτωσ ἐάν τισ τοῖσ λυμαινομένοισ τῇ πόλει μετὰ πολλοῦ τοῦ περιόντοσ συνηγορῇ, τεκμήριον ἐναργὲσ παρέχεται γνώμησ οὐχ ὑγιοῦσ καὶ τὰ δεινότατα καθ’ ἡμῶν τεχνωμένησ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 25:8)

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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