Ancient Greek

Noun

τέκτων • ‎(téktōn) m ‎(genitive τέκτονος); third declension

1. one who works with wood: carpenter, builder
2. any craftsman (but generally opposed to metalworker, smith)
3. a master of any art, such as gymnastics, poetry, or medicine
4. author, creator, planner

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀρχιτέκτων ‎(arkhitéktōn)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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.
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press