τέκτων
tekton
worker in wood, carpenter, joiner
Appears 12 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
τέκτων, ονος, ὁ (fem. in Ag. 1406, Med. 409),
‹ All lexicon entries worker in wood, carpenter, joiner, τέκτονες ἄνδρες, οἵ οἱ ἐποίησαν θάλαμον καὶ δῶμα καὶ αὐλήν Il. 6.315, cf. 91; τέκτονος υἱόν, Ἁρμονίδεω . . ὂς καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τεκτήνατο νῆας ἐΐσας Il. 5.59; νηῶν, δούρων τ., Od. 9.126, 17.384, cf. 19.56, 21.43; [πίτυν] οὔρεσι τέκτονες ἄνδρες ἐξέταμον πελέκεσσι Il. 13.390; τ., ὅς ῥά τε πάσης εὖ εἰδῇ σοφίης 15.411; τ. γὰρ ὢν ἔπρασσες οὐ ξυλουργικά Fr. 988, cf. Fr. 357, Fr. 474, Mem. 1.2.37: it is freq. opp. to a smith (χαλκεύς), Prt. 319d, R. 370d, HG 3.4.17; to a mason (λιθολόγος), 6.44, cf. Av. 1154: freq. in Inscrr., IG 1(2).373.245, etc., and Papyri, PCair.Zen. 27.3 (iii B.C.), etc.:—but also,
2. generally, any craftsman or workman, κεραοξόος τ. a worker in horn, Il. 4.110, cf. Tr. 768; rarely of metal-workers, h.Ven. 12; τ. Δίου πυρὸς Κύκλωπας Alc. 5; sculptor, statuary, ib. 348.
3. master in any art, as in gymnastics, N. 5.49; of poets, τέκτονες σοφοὶ (sc. ἐπέων) P. 3.113; τέκτονες εὐπαλάμων ὕμνων 70 (ap. Eq. 530); τέκτονες κώμων, i.e. the χορευταί, N. 3.4; τ. νωδυνίας, i.e. a physician, P. 3.6; δεξιᾶς χερὸς ἔργον, δικαίας τέκτονος a true workman, Ag. 1406.
4. metaph., maker, author, νεικέων ib. 152 (lyr.); κακῶν Med. 409; γένους the author of a race, Supp. 594 (lyr.), cf. 283; ψευδῶν τ. 28; ὁ γὰρ χρόνος μʼ ἔκαμψε, τ. μὲν σοφός 39. (Cf. Skt. tákṣan- ‘carpenter’, tákṣati, tāṣṭi ‘form by cutting, plane, chisel, chop’, Lett. test, tēst ‘hew, plane’, etc.: cf. τέχνη.)