τέχνα (techna)

τέχνα is an Ancient Greek form of τέχνη, meaning “art, craft, skill”. It is the nominative dual feminine noun or nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.14: … ς μαθὼν ἢ ὄρχησιν ὀρχηστάς τις ἢ πλοκεὺς πλοκάν, ἢ πᾶν γʼ ὁμοίως τῶν τοιούτων ὅ τι τὺ λῇς, οὔ χʼ αὑτὸς εἴη χἀ τέχνα, τεχνικός γα μάν.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 24.114: πάμμαχοι ἐξεύροντο σοφίσματα σύμφορα τέχνᾳ,

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume III 9.738.1: ἐν βοῒ τᾷδʼ ἐμάχοντο Φύσις καὶ πότνια Τέχνα·

All forms of τέχνη (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.