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

  • μέλλοντοσ δὲ αὐτοῦ τὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν ἄγειν ὀπίσω πεδινὴν καὶ ἄδενδρον οὖσαν, ἀνὴρ τῷ γένει Μάρδοσ, πολλὰ τοῖσ Πάρθων ἤθεσιν ἐνωμιληκώσ, ἤδη δὲ Ῥωμαίοισ πιστὸσ ἐν τῇ μάχῃ τῇ περὶ τὰσ μηχανὰσ γεγονώσ, Ἀντωνίῳ προσελθὼν ἐκέλευε φεύγειν ἐν δεξιᾷ τῶν ὀρῶν ἐπιλαβόμενον, καὶ μὴ στρατὸν ὁπλίτην καὶ βαρὺν ἐν δρόμοισ γυμνοῖσ καὶ ἀναπεπταμένοισ ὑποβαλεῖν ἵππῳ τοσαύτῃ καὶ τοξεύμασιν, ὃ δὴ τεχνώμενον τὸν Φραάτην ἀναστῆσαι τῆσ πολιορκίασ αὐτὸν ὁμολογίαισ φιλανθρώποισ· (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 41 1:1)
  • ἀδύνατον οὖν πολλὰ τεχνώμενον ἄνθρωπον πάντα καλῶσ ποιεῖν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 6:4)

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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