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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

  • ἔχει δὲ περὶ νόμου ὧδε‧ τὸ παιδίον ὁκόταν γένηται τάχιστα, τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ ἔτι ἁπαλὴν ἐοῦσαν μαλθακοῦ ἐόντοσ ἀναπλάσσουσι τῇσι χερσὶ καὶ ἀναγκάζουσιν ἐσ τὸ μῆκοσ αὔξεσθαι δεσμά τε προσφέροντεσ καὶ τεχνήματα ἐπιτήδεια, ὑφ’ ὧν τὸ μὲν σφαιροειδὲσ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ κακοῦται, τὸ δὲ μῆκοσ αὔξεται. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xiv.5)
  • χαιρέτω δ̓ ὁ Δαίδαλοσ καὶ τὰ Δαιδάλου μιμηλὰ τεχνήματα· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 82:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν ἐπιχώριοσ μηδεὶσ ἔστω τῶν περὶ τὰ δημιουργικὰ τεχνήματα διαπονούντων, μηδὲ οἰκέτησ ἀνδρὸσ ἐπιχωρίου. (Plato, Laws, book 8 120:2)

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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