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

  • "τῷ μὲν γὰρ Πέρσῃ πᾶσαν γῆν περιέρχονται μαστεύοντεσ τί ἂν ἡδέωσ πίοι, μυρίοι δὲ τεχνῶνται τί ἂν ἡδέωσ φάγοι ὅπωσ γε μὴν καταδάρθοι οὐδ’ ἂν εἴποι τισ ὅσα πραγματεύονται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 242)
  • ἔξοιδα, παῖ, φύσει σε μὴ πεφυκότα τοιαῦτα φωνεῖν μηδὲ τεχνᾶσθαι κακά· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 3:15)
  • τῷ μὲν γὰρ Πέρσῃ πᾶσαν γῆν περιέρχονται μαστεύοντεσ τί ἂν ἡδέωσ πίοι, μυρίοι δὲ τεχνῶνται τί ἂν ἡδέωσ φάγοι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 4:2)
  • οὕτω δὲ διέκειντο πρὸσ αὐτὸν οἱ ἄνθρωποι ὡσ πᾶν μὲν ἔθνοσ μειονεκτεῖν ἐδόκει, εἰ μὴ Κύρῳ πέμψειεν ὅ τι καλὸν αὐτοῖσ ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ἢ φύοιτο ἢ τρέφοιτο ἢ τεχνῷτο, πᾶσα δὲ πόλισ ὡσαύτωσ, πᾶσ δὲ ἰδιώτησ πλούσιοσ ἂν ᾤετο γενέσθαι, εἴ τι Κύρῳ χαρίσαιτο· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 30:1)
  • τοῦτο πυθομένη ἡ Ναάμισ τεχνᾶται παρακατακλῖναι τὴν Ῥούθην αὐτῷ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 425:2)

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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