τεκταίνομαι,
[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 867, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future τεκτᾰνοῦμαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 674 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐτεκτηνάμην [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 951, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect τεκτήνατο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.62 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—properly of a carpenter. frame, νῆας [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” ] Refs 8th c.BC+] [same place], cf. Ar.[same place]: absolutely, do joiners' work, as opposed to to smiths' work, ἕτερος δὲ χαλκεύει τις, ὁ δὲ τ. [[ [prev. author] “Pl.” 163; μηδεὶς χαλκεύων ἅμα τεκταινέσθω 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 846e, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to πλάττω, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 730b30. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 of other artificers, τ. χέλυν, [[ “hymnus ad Mercurium” 25; τάφον 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Jovem” 9; τέλεον αὐτὸν [τὸν κόσμον] ἐτεκτήνατο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 33b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ τεκταινόμενος the maker, [[[prev. work] 28c. ] Refs]
__3 metaphorically, devise, plan, contrive, especially by craft or cunningly (compare συντεκταίνομαι), λόγος σύγκολλα τἀμφοῖν ἐς μέσον τ. fits and frames together, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 867 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σιγῇ δ᾽ ἐτεκτήναντ᾽ ἀπόφθεγκτόν μ᾽ they kept me from speech of them, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 951 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πᾶν ἐπ᾽ ἐμοὶ τεκταινέσθω (i.e. Cleon) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 660; τ. μαθήματα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 224d, compare “Ti.” 91a; ἐπέων κόσμον 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 21, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.49 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]