A.“τεκτα^νοῦμαι” Ar.Lys.674: aor. “ἐτεκτηνάμην” E.IT951, etc., Ep. “τεκτήνατο” Il.5.62:—prop. of a carpenter. frame, “νῆας” Il. l.c., cf. Ar.l.c.: abs., do joiners' work, as opp. to smiths' work, ἕτερος δὲ χαλκεύει τις, ὁ δὲ τ. Id.Pl.163; “μηδεὶς χαλκεύων ἅμα τεκταινέσθω” Pl.Lg.846e, cf. X.Mem.4.2.22; opp. πλάττω, Arist.GA730b30.
2. of other artificers, τ. χέλυν, h.Merc.25; “τάφον” Call.Jov.9; “τέλεον αὐτὸν [τὸν κόσμον] ἐτεκτήνατο” Pl.Ti.33b; ὁ τεκταινόμενος the maker, ib.28c.
3. metaph., devise, plan, contrive, esp. by craft or cunningly (cf. συντεκταίνομαι）, λόγος σύγκολλα τἀμφοῖν ἐς μέσον τ. fits and frames together, S.Fr.867; σιγῇ δ᾽ ἐτεκτήναντ᾽ ἀπόφθεγκτόν μ᾽ they kept me from speech of them, E.IT 951; πᾶν ἐπ᾽ ἐμοὶ τεκταινέσθω (sc. Cleon) Ar.Ach.660; “τ. μαθήματα” Pl.Sph.224d, cf. Ti.91a; “ἐπέων κόσμον” Democr.21, cf. Phld.Rh.2.49 S.
II. later, Act. τεκταίνω in same senses, τ. κακά, δόλους, LXX Pr.14.22, 26.24; ἀργύριον ib.Ba.3.18: abs., ib.Ps.128(129).3; cf. A.R.2.381, 3.592, Luc.Jud.Voc.12, Hierocl. in CA 1p.421M., AP6. 80 (Agath.); “ζῴδια τεκταίνοντα” HeroAut.24.1: even Att. writers have the part. τεκταινόμενα in pass. sense, “ταυτί μ᾽ οὐκ ἐλάνθανε τ. τὰ πράγματ᾽” Ar.Eq.462; τὰ ὕστερον τ. D.34.48.
