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τέχνασμα?

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration: technasma

Principal Part: τέχνασμα τέχνασματος

Structure: τεχνασματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. anything made or done by art, a handiwork
  2. an artifice, trick

Declension

Third declension

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

  • πῶς ἂν ξίφος νὼ ταὐτόν, εἰ θέμις, κτάνοι καὶ μνῆμα δέξαιθ ἕν, κέδρου τεχνάσματα· (Euripides, episode, anapests 1:33)
  • οἱ μὲν δή τινες λέγουσιν ὡς ταῦτα πάντα τεχνάσματα ἦν τῶν προεστηκότων. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 8:5)
  • ὁ δ αἰσθανόμενος τοῦ τεχνάσματος ὡρ´αν αὐτοῖς ἔδωκε κἀν τῇδε ξυλίνῳ ὄντι τῷ τείχει κληματίδας περιτιθεὶς μετὰ τὴν ὡρ´αν ὑφῆπτεν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 6 8:3)
  • οἳ καίπερ ὄντες ἔμμισθοι τὰ μὲν γενόμενα ἐπαινεῖν οὐκ ἐθάρρουν, δεδιότες τὴν Καίσαρος δόξαν καὶ τὸ πρὸς τῶν ἑτέρων ἐσόμενον, ὡς δ ἐπὶ συμφέροντι κοινῷ τὴν εἰρήνην ἐπεβόων καὶ θαμινὰ τοὺς ἄρχοντας ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς παρεκάλουν, τέχνασμα τοῦτο ἐς τὴν τῶν ἀνδροφόνων σωτηρίαν ἐπινοοῦντες: (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 17 4:2)
  • ταύτην Ἀλέξανδρος μὲν ἔλεγεν τέχνασμα εἶναι Διοφάντου: (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 744:1)

Synonyms

  1. anything made or done by art

  2. an artifice

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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