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τέχνημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέχνημα τέχνηματος

Structure: τεχνηματ (Stem)

Etym.: texna/omai

Sense

  1. a masterpiece
  2. an artful device, trick, artifice, a device, invention

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

  • "πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ καὶ ὁπλομαχίασ μαθήσεισ ἐν Μαντινείᾳ πρῶτον εὑρέθησαν Δημέου τὸ τέχνημα καταδείξαντοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 41 1:3)
  • καίτοι τό γε μνημονικὸν ἐπελαθόμην σου, ὡσ ἐοίκε, τέχνημα, ἐν ᾧ σὺ οἰεί λαμπρότατοσ εἶναι· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 34:2)
  • ἦ καλόν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, τέχνημα ἄρα κέκτησαι, εἴπερ κέκτησαι· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 88:1)
  • οὐδέν γε μὴν προσέοικεν ἀσφαλείασ ἕνεκεν οὔτε ἀετοῖσ οὔτε γεράνοισ οὔτε ἄλλῳ τινὶ πτηνῷ γένει τὴν φύσιν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἄν τισ αὐτὸν προσεικάσειε τῇ Ἰκαρίου βιαίῳ καὶ παρὰ φύσιν φορᾷ, οὐ δυνατὸν τέχνημα ἐπιχειρήσαντοσ Δαιδάλου τεχνήσασθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 140:1)

Synonyms

  1. an artful device

Related

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

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