τέκτων

From Proto-Hellenic *téktōn, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱō (“carpenter”), from *tetḱ- (“to create, produce”). Cognate with Sanskrit तक्षन् (tákṣan).

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

1. one who works with wood: carpenter, builder
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.1098a:

     καὶ γὰρ τέκτων καὶ γεωμέτρης διαφερόντως ἐπιζητοῦσι τὴν ὀρθήν: ὃ μὲν γὰρ ἐφ᾽ ὅσον χρησίμη πρὸς τὸ ἔργον, ὃ δὲ τί ἐστιν ἢ ποῖόν τι: θεατὴς γὰρ τἀληθοῦς.

     kaì gàr téktōn kaì geōmétrēs diapheróntōs epizētoûsi tḕn orthḗn: hò mèn gàr eph᾽ hóson khrēsímē pròs tò érgon, hò dè tí estin ḕ poîón ti: theatḕs gàr talēthoûs.

     • 1926 translation by H. Rackham

       A carpenter and a geometrician both try to find a right angle, but in different ways; the former is content with that approximation to it which satisfies the purpose of his work; the latter, being a student of truth, seeks to find its essence or essential attributes.

2. any craftsman (but generally opposed to metalworker, smith)
3. a master of any art, such as gymnastics, poetry, or medicine or engineering
4. author, creator, planner

• ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn)
• τέκταινα (téktaina)

• τέχνη (tékhnē)

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