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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *téktōn, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱō (“carpenter”), from *tetḱ- (“to create, produce”). Cognate with Sanskrit तक्षन् (tákṣan).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ték.tɔːn/ → /ˈtek.ton/ → /ˈtek.ton/
Noun
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.
- kaì gàr téktōn kaì geōmétrēs diapheróntōs epizētoûsi tḕn orthḗn: hò mèn gàr eph᾽ hóson khrēsímē pròs tò érgon, hò dè tí estin ḕ poîón ti: theatḕs gàr talēthoûs.
- 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.
- any craftsman (but generally opposed to metalworker, smith)
- a master of any art, such as gymnastics, poetry, or medicine or engineering
- author, creator, planner
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Further reading
- “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, 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