ἐπιτέχνησις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐπι- (epi-) + τέχνησις (tékhnēsis) and ἐπιτεχνάομαι (epitekhnáomai) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.pi.té.kʰnɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.piˈte.kʰne̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.piˈte.xni.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.piˈte.xni.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.piˈte.xni.sis/
Noun
ἐπῐτέχνησῐς • (epĭtékhnēsĭs) f (genitive ἐπῐτεχνήσεως); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐπῐτέχνησῐς hē epĭtékhnēsĭs |
τὼ ἐπῐτεχνήσει tṑ epĭtekhnḗsei |
αἱ ἐπῐτεχνήσεις hai epĭtekhnḗseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐπῐτεχνήσεως tês epĭtekhnḗseōs |
τοῖν ἐπῐτεχνησέοιν toîn epĭtekhnēséoin |
τῶν ἐπῐτεχνήσεων tôn epĭtekhnḗseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐπῐτεχνήσει tēî epĭtekhnḗsei |
τοῖν ἐπῐτεχνησέοιν toîn epĭtekhnēséoin |
ταῖς ἐπῐτεχνήσεσῐ / ἐπῐτεχνήσεσῐν taîs epĭtekhnḗsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐπῐτέχνησῐν tḕn epĭtékhnēsĭn |
τὼ ἐπῐτεχνήσει tṑ epĭtekhnḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐτεχνήσεις tā̀s epĭtekhnḗseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐπῐτέχνησῐ epĭtékhnēsĭ |
ἐπῐτεχνήσει epĭtekhnḗsei |
ἐπῐτεχνήσεις epĭtekhnḗseis | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- ἐπιτέχνησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐπιτέχνησις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἐπιτέχνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ingenuity idem, page 440.
- inventiveness idem, page 457.
- originality idem, page 580.