τεκμήριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τεκμαίρομαι (tekmaíromai, “to make a conjecture”) + -ιον (-ion).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tek.mɛ̌ː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tekˈme̝.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tekˈmi.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tekˈmi.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tekˈmi.ri.on/
Noun
τεκμήρῐον • (tekmḗrion) n (genitive τεκμηρῐ́ου); second declension (Attic, Ionic, Koine)
- proof (through argument)
- 4th century BC, Isaeus, Nicostratus 12:
- ἐν μόναις δὲ ταῖς τῶν κλήρων εἰσαγωγαῖς δοκεῖ μοι προσήκειν τεκμηρίοις μᾶλλον ἢ μάρτυσι πιστεύειν.
- en mónais dè taîs tôn klḗrōn eisagōgaîs dokeî moi prosḗkein tekmēríois mâllon ḕ mártusi pisteúein.
- 1962 translation by Edward Seymour Forster
- It seems to me that in suits concerning inheritances, and in these alone, more credit ought to be given to circumstantial proof than to the statements of witnesses.
- ἐν μόναις δὲ ταῖς τῶν κλήρων εἰσαγωγαῖς δοκεῖ μοι προσήκειν τεκμηρίοις μᾶλλον ἢ μάρτυσι πιστεύειν.
- (logic) demonstrative proof
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 70b.2
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.3.7:
- τὰ γὰρ τεκμήρια καὶ τὰ εἰκότα καὶ τὰ σημεῖα προτάσεις εἰσὶν ῥητορικαί
- tà gàr tekmḗria kaì tà eikóta kaì tà sēmeîa protáseis eisìn rhētorikaí
- for proofs and probable propositions and probable arguments are propositions of rhetoric
- τὰ γὰρ τεκμήρια καὶ τὰ εἰκότα καὶ τὰ σημεῖα προτάσεις εἰσὶν ῥητορικαί
Declension
Second declension of τὸ τεκμήρῐον; τοῦ τεκμηρῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ τεκμήρῐον tò tekmḗrion | τὼ τεκμηρῐ́ω tṑ tekmēríō | τᾰ̀ τεκμήρῐᾰ tà tekmḗria | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τεκμηρῐ́ου toû tekmēríou | τοῖν τεκμηρῐ́οιν toîn tekmēríoin | τῶν τεκμηρῐ́ων tôn tekmēríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τεκμηρῐ́ῳ tôi tekmēríōi | τοῖν τεκμηρῐ́οιν toîn tekmēríoin | τοῖς τεκμηρῐ́οις toîs tekmēríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ τεκμήρῐον tò tekmḗrion | τὼ τεκμηρῐ́ω tṑ tekmēríō | τᾰ̀ τεκμήρῐᾰ tà tekmḗria | ||||||||||
Vocative | τεκμήρῐον tekmḗrion | τεκμηρῐ́ω tekmēríō | τεκμήρῐᾰ tekmḗria | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τεκμηριόω (tekmērióō)
Descendants
- Greek: τεκμήριο (tekmírio)
Further reading
- “τεκμήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press