The corpus record — Latin

techna

techna · f

a wile

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Where it lives

Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k

What it meant

techna — Lewis & Short

techna (techina, ae, f., = te/xnh,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 23 Lorenz ad loc.; id. Poen. 4, 1, 1),

I a wile, trick, piece of craft or subtilty, artifice, cunning device (ante-class.): tum igitur ego deruncinatus, deartuatus sum miser Hujus scelesti technis, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 109; id. Bacch. 3, 2, 8; Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 62; id. Eun. 4, 4, 51.

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.