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χειροτεχνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειροτεχνία

Structure: χειροτεχνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from xeirote/xnhs

Sense

  1. handicraft

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χειροτεχνία χειροτεχνίᾱ χειροτεχνίαι
Genitive χειροτεχνίᾱς χειροτεχνίαιν χειροτεχνιῶν
Dative χειροτεχνίᾱͅ χειροτεχνίαιν χειροτεχνίαις
Accusative χειροτεχνίᾱν χειροτεχνίᾱ χειροτεχνίᾱς
Vocative χειροτεχνίᾱ χειροτεχνίᾱ χειροτεχνίαι

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

  • οὐκοῦν τῷ μὲν τιμᾶν τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ καὶ γεωργιῶν ἀπέχεσθαι τὸ προπολεμοῦν αὐτῆσ καὶ χειροτεχνιῶν καὶ τοῦ ἄλλου χρηματισμοῦ, συσσίτια δὲ κατεσκευάσθαι καὶ γυμναστικῆσ τε καὶ τῆσ τοῦ πολέμου ἀγωνίασ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι, πᾶσι τοῖσ τοιούτοισ τὴν προτέραν μιμήσεται; (Plato, Republic, book 8 65:1)
  • βαναυσία δὲ καὶ χειροτεχνία διὰ τί οἰεί ὄνειδοσ φέρει; (Plato, Republic, book 9 501:1)

Synonyms

  1. handicraft

Similar forms

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

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