ἐπιτέχνησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπι- (epi-) +‎ τέχνησις (tékhnēsis) and ἐπιτεχνάομαι (epitekhnáomai) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pi.té.kʰnɛː.sis/ → /e.piˈte.xni.sis/ → /e.piˈte.xni.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pi.té.kʰnɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.piˈte.kʰne̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.piˈte.xni.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.piˈte.xni.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.piˈte.xni.sis/

Noun

ἐπῐτέχνησῐς • (epĭtékhnēsĭs) f (genitive ἐπῐτεχνήσεως); third declension

1. contrivance, invention

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἐπῐτέχνησῐς; τῆς ἐπῐτεχνήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπῐτέχνησῐς hē epĭtékhnēsĭs	τὼ ἐπῐτεχνήσει tṑ epĭtekhnḗsei	αἱ ἐπῐτεχνήσεις hai epĭtekhnḗseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐπῐτεχνήσεως tês epĭtekhnḗseōs	τοῖν ἐπῐτεχνησέοιν toîn epĭtekhnēséoin	τῶν ἐπῐτεχνήσεων tôn epĭtekhnḗseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐπῐτεχνήσει têi epĭtekhnḗsei	τοῖν ἐπῐτεχνησέοιν toîn epĭtekhnēséoin	ταῖς ἐπῐτεχνήσεσῐ / ἐπῐτεχνήσεσῐν taîs epĭtekhnḗsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐπῐτέχνησῐν tḕn epĭtékhnēsĭn	τὼ ἐπῐτεχνήσει tṑ epĭtekhnḗsei	τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐτεχνήσεις tā̀s epĭtekhnḗseis
Vocative	ἐπῐτέχνησῐ epĭtékhnēsĭ	ἐπῐτεχνήσει epĭtekhnḗsei	ἐπῐτεχνήσεις epĭtekhnḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• ἐπιτέχνησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐπιτέχνησις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἐπιτέχνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ingenuity idem, page 440.
  • inventiveness idem, page 457.
  • originality idem, page 580.