τέχνη

From Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- (“to create, produce”). Cognate with τίκτω (tíktō), τέκτων (téktōn), Sanskrit तक्षति (takṣati), Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬱𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (tašaiti), Latin texō, tēla, tignum, Proto-Germanic *þahsuz.

τέχνη • (tékhnē) f (genitive τέχνης); first declension

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

• τεχνάζω (tekhnázō)
• τεχνάομαι (tekhnáomai)
• τεχνικός (tekhnikós)
• τεχνολογίᾱ (tekhnologíā)
• τεχνολόγος (tekhnológos)

• Greek: τέχνη (téchni)
• → Latin: techna

• τέχνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τέχνη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τέχνη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τέχνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• τέχνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G5078 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accomplishment idem, page 6.
  • acquirement idem, page 9.
  • address idem, page 11.
  • adroitness idem, page 13.
  • art idem, page 42.
  • artifice idem, page 42.
  • attainment idem, page 50.
  • business idem, page 106.
  • cleverness idem, page 137.
  • craft idem, page 181.
  • cunning idem, page 189.
  • design idem, page 215.
  • dexterity idem, page 221.
  • diplomacy idem, page 225.
  • employment idem, page 269.
  • finesse idem, page 321.
  • guile idem, page 378.
  • handicraft idem, page 383.
  • industry idem, page 435.
  • knack idem, page 470.
  • labour idem, page 472.
  • machination idem, page 506.
  • management idem, page 511.
  • manœuvre idem, page 513.
  • occupation idem, page 568.
  • product idem, page 645.
  • profession idem, page 653.
  • skill idem, page 780.
  • sleight idem, page 783.
  • trade idem, page 885.
  • trick idem, page 894.
  • vocation idem, page 955.
  • wile idem, page 979.
  • work idem, page 988.
  • workmanship idem, page 989.

From Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtexni/

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• Hyphenation: τέ‧χνη

τέχνη • (téchni) f (plural τέχνες)

1. art, craftsmanship, style