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

  • ὥστε μὴ διαίρει τὼ τέχνα· (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 20:14)
  • γραμμὰ Παρρασίοιο,6 τέχνα Μυόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 192)
  • δέξαι στεφάνωμα τόδ’ ἐκ Πυθῶνοσ εὐδόξῳ Μίδᾳ, αὐτόν τέ νιν Ἑλλάδα νικάσαντα τέχνᾳ, τάν ποτε Παλλὰσ ἐφεῦρε θρασειᾶν Γοργόνων οὔλιον θρῆνον διαπλέξαισ’ Ἀθάνα· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 12 2:1)
  • ἔσφαλε τέχνα καταμάρψαισ’. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 4 12:1)
  • τέχνα γὰρ τέχνασ ἑτέρασ προύχει καὶ γνώμα παρ’ ὅτῳ τὸ θεῖον Διὸσ σκῆπτρον ἀνάσσεται. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, strophe 13)

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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