Strong G5078τέχνη

τέχν-η, ἡ,
(τέκτων) art, skill, cunning of hand, especially in metalworking, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.433, 6.234, 11.614)]; also of a shipwright, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.61)]; of a soothsayer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 249 (_plural_, Lyric poetry), “Eu.” 17, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 389, etc.; τέχναι ἑτέρων ἕτεραι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.25; ὤπασε τ. πᾶσαν [prev. author] “O.” 7.50.)]
2 craft, cunning, in bad sense, δολίη τ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.455, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 160)]: plural, arts, wiles, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.327.332, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 496, 929; δολίαις τέχναισι χρησάμενος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.58)]; τέχναις τινός by his arts (or simply by his agency), [Refs ([prev. author] “O.” 9.52, “P.” 3.11)]; τέχνην κακὴν ἔχει he has a bad trick, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 770, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).35(53), S “Ph.” 88, etc.)]
3 way, manner, or means whereby a thing is gained, without any definite sense of art or craft, μηδεμιῇ τ. in no wise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.112)]; ἰθέῃ τ. straightway, [Refs ([prev. author] 9.57)]; πάσῃ τ. by all means, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1323, “Th.” 65, “Ec.” 366)]; παντοίᾳ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 752, etc.; οὐκ ἀποστήσομαι.. οὔτε τ. οὔτε μηχανῇ οὐδεμιᾷ “IG” 12.39.22; πάσῃ τ. καὶ μηχανῇ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.5.16; μήτε τ. μήτε μηχανῇ μηδεμιᾷ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.95.)]
II an art, craft, πᾶσαι τέχναι βροτοῖσιν ἐκ Προμηθέως [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 506, compare “IG” 12.678)]; τὴν τ. ἐπίστασθαι to know the craft, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.130; φλαύρως ἔχειν τὴν τ. [prev. passage]; τῆς τ. ἔμπειρος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 811)]; ταύτην τέχνην ἔχει he makes this his trade, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.16, compare 6.7)]; ἐν τῇ τ. εἶναι practise it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 562, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 317c)]; ἐπὶ τέχνῃ μαθεῖν τι to learn a thing professionally, opposed to ἐπὶ παιδείᾳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 312b, compare 315a; τέχναι καὶ ἐργασίαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.10.1)]; τέχνην τὸ πρᾶγμα πεποιημένοι having made a trade of it, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.53)]; τέχνας ἀσκεῖν, μελετᾶν, ἐργάζεσθαι, to practise them,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.26, 41 (_passive_), “Oec.” 4.3; πατρῴαν τέχναν ἐργάζεσθαι ἁλιεύεσθαι Πρακτικὰ Ἀρχ. Ἑτ. 1932.52 (Dodona, 4th c.BC))]; ἰατρὸς τὴν τ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 40.5 (2nd c.AD))]; τεθεραπευκὼς ἀνεγκλήτως τῇ τ., of a barber, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PEnteux.” 47.3 (3rd c.BC))]; παραμενῶ πρὸς ὑπηρεσίαν τῆς τ. (i.e. weaving) [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“Sammelb.” 7358.20 (3rd c.AD))]; ἀπὸ τεχνῶν τρέφεσθαι live by them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 7.1.)]
III an art or craft, i.e. a set of rules, system or method of making or doing, whether of the useful arts, or of the fine arts, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 171.11, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 245a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1354a11, “EN” 1140a8; ἡ ἐμπειρία τέχνην ἐποίησεν, ἡ δ᾽ ἀπειρία τύχην Polus cited in [same work] “Metaphorical” 981a4)]; ἡ περὶ τοὺς λόγους τ. the [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Art” of Rhetoric, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 90b)]; οἱ τὰς τ. τῶν λόγων συντιθέντες systems of rhetoric, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1354a12, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 13.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 271c, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.50 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, +others)]; hence title of various treatises on Rhetoric (see. VI; but rather tricks of Rhetoric, in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.117))]; τέχνῃ by rules of art, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 282d; ἢ φύσει ἢ τέχνῃ [prev. author] “R.” 381b; τέχνῃ καὶ ἐπιστήμῃ [prev. author] “Ion” 532c)]; ἄνευ τέχνης, μετὰ τέχνης, [Refs ([prev. author] “Phd.” 89e)]: τ. defined as ἕξις ὁδοποιητική, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.20, cf. Cleanth. [prev. work]1.110.)]
IV ={τέχνημα}, work of art, handiwork, κρατῆρες.., ἀνδρὸς εὔχειρος τέχνη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 472; ὅπλοις.., Ἡφαίστου τέχνῃ [prev. author] “fragment” 156, compare 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.1.14, “PLond.” 3.854.4 (2nd c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.25.1, +others)]
V ={συντεχνία, ἡ τ. τῶν λιθουργῶν, τῶν σακκοφόρων}, Dumont-Homolle “Mélanges d' archéol. et d' épigr.” [Refs (p.378 No. 65, 66 (from Perinthus); τ. βυρσέων, συροποιῶν, “IGRom.” 1.717,1482 (both Philippopolis))]; τοὺς καταλειπομένους ἀπὸ τῇς τ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“BGU” 1572.12 (2nd c.AD))]; ὁ χαλκεὺς ἀπὸ τῆς τ. [Refs (“SIG” 1140 (from Amphipolis).)]
VI treatise on Grammar, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus at Title Page, or on Rhetoric, Anaximenes Lampsacenus at Title Page)]