Latin

Alternative forms

• techina

Noun

techna f ‎(genitive technae); first declension

1. A piece of craft or subtlety
2. wile, trick, artifice, cunning device

Inflection

First declension.

References

• techna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “techna”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• techna in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016