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τεχνῶν (technon)

τεχνῶν is an Ancient Greek form of τέχνη, meaning “art, craft, skill”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of τεχνή, “art, craft, skill”.

Found 194 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.12.121: … ειον ἢ Πολιτικός. Περὶ τοῦ καλοῦ. Περὶ τοῦ κακουργεῖν. Περὶ εὐθημοσύνης. Περὶ τοῦ νόμου. Περὶ τοῦ θείου. Περὶ τεχνῶν. Περὶ συνουσίας. Περὶ σοφίας. Πρωταγόρας ἢ Πολιτικός. Περὶ γραμμάτων. Περὶ ποιητικῆς, [περὶ τοῦ καλοῦ]. Περὶ …

Plutarch, Aratus 20.1: … λῆ τὴν πρᾶξιν ἐπισφαλεστέραν ἐποίησεν ἁμαρτία τις εὐθὺς ἐν ἀρχῇ συμβᾶσα διʼ ἄγνοιαν. ὁ γὰρ οἰκέτης τοῦ Ἀράτου Τέχνων ἐπέμφθη μὲν ὡς μετὰ τοῦ Διοκλέους κατασκεψόμενος τὸ τεῖχος, οὔπω δʼ ἦν τῷ Διοκλεῖ πρότερον ἐντετυχηκὼς κατʼ ὄ …

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.