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τέχνασμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέχνασμα τέχνασματος

Structure: τεχνασματ (Stem)

Etym.: texna/zw

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 ὡρ́αν αὐτοῖσ ἔδωκε κἀν τῇδε ξυλίνῳ ὄντι τῷ τείχει κληματίδασ περιτιθεὶσ μετὰ τὴν ὡρ́αν 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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