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τέχνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέχνη τέχνης

Structure: τεχν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ti/ktw

Sense

  1. craft, skill, trade
  2. art
  3. cunning, wile
  4. means

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τέχνη τέχνᾱ τέχναι
Genitive τέχνης τέχναιν τεχνῶν
Dative τέχνῃ τέχναιν τέχναις
Accusative τέχνην τέχνᾱ τέχνᾱς
Vocative τέχνη τέχνᾱ τέχναι

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. art

  2. means

Similar forms

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