τέκτων
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *téktōn, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱō (“carpenter”), from *tetḱ- (“to create, produce”). Cognate with Sanskrit तक्षन् (tákṣan).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ték.tɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtek.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtek.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtek.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtek.ton/
Noun
[edit]τέκτων • (téktōn) m (genitive τέκτονος); third declension
- one who works with wood: carpenter, builder
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.1098a:
- καὶ γὰρ τέκτων καὶ γεωμέτρης διαφερόντως ἐπιζητοῦσι τὴν ὀρθήν: ὃ μὲν γὰρ ἐφ᾽ ὅσον χρησίμη πρὸς τὸ ἔργον, ὃ δὲ τί ἐστιν ἢ ποῖόν τι: θεατὴς γὰρ τἀληθοῦς.
- 1926 translation by H. Rackham
- A carpenter and a geometrician both try to find a right angle, but in different ways; the former is content with that approximation to it which satisfies the purpose of his work; the latter, being a student of truth, seeks to find its essence or essential attributes.
- 1926 translation by H. Rackham
- καὶ γὰρ τέκτων καὶ γεωμέτρης διαφερόντως ἐπιζητοῦσι τὴν ὀρθήν: ὃ μὲν γὰρ ἐφ᾽ ὅσον χρησίμη πρὸς τὸ ἔργον, ὃ δὲ τί ἐστιν ἢ ποῖόν τι: θεατὴς γὰρ τἀληθοῦς.
- any craftsman (but generally opposed to metalworker, smith)
- a master of any art, such as gymnastics, poetry, or medicine or engineering
- author, creator, planner
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τέκτων ho téktōn |
τὼ τέκτονε tṑ téktone |
οἱ τέκτονες hoi téktones | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τέκτονος toû téktonos |
τοῖν τεκτόνοιν toîn tektónoin |
τῶν τεκτόνων tôn tektónōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τέκτονῐ tôi téktoni |
τοῖν τεκτόνοιν toîn tektónoin |
τοῖς τέκτοσῐ / τέκτοσῐν toîs téktosi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τέκτονᾰ tòn téktona |
τὼ τέκτονε tṑ téktone |
τοὺς τέκτονᾰς toùs téktonas | ||||||||||
Vocative | τέκτων téktōn |
τέκτονε téktone |
τέκτονες téktones | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn)
- τέκταινα (téktaina)
Related terms
[edit]- τέχνη (tékhnē)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τέκτων, -ονος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1460
Further reading
[edit]- “τέκτων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τέκτων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τέκτων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τέκτων 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
- τέκτων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τέκτων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5045 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- artificer idem, page 42.
- artist idem, page 42.
- author idem, page 53.
- carpenter idem, page 114.
- contriver idem, page 170.
- deviser idem, page 220.
- fabricator idem, page 299.
- forger idem, page 338.
- inventor idem, page 457.
- joiner idem, page 463.
- maker idem, page 509.
- sawyer idem, page 736.
- workman idem, page 989.
- wright idem, page 993.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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