Fwd: "techne, n." - Word of the Day from the OED

[Dave Monroe]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:  <oedwotd at oup.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Subject: "techne, n." - Word of the Day from the OED
To: OEDWOTD-L at webber.uk.hub.oup.com


OED Online Word of the Day
________________________________

Your word for today is: techne, n.

techne, n.
[‘ An art, skill, or craft; a technique, principle, or method by which
something is achieved or created. Also: a product of this, a work of
art.’]
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈtɛkneɪ/,  U.S. /ˈtɛkneɪ/
Forms:  18– technê,   19– techne,   19– techné.
Etymology: <  ancient Greek τέχνη art, craft (see techno- comb. form).
  An art, skill, or craft; a technique, principle, or method by which
something is achieved or created. Also: a product of this, a work of
art.
1897  G. Murray Hist. Anc. Greek Lit. xvi. 330 Speech-writing was a
‘technê’ in the sense that it had rules and a purpose, but its purpose
was to convince a jury, not to be beautiful.
1914 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 35 4 The most casual and apparently
inconsequential details of his particular techné, the Rhetorical Art.
1957  N. Frye Anat. Crit. 66 For Aristotle, the poem is a techne or
aesthetic artifact.
2006 Believer Mar. 12/1 Questions about Kafka's relation to what might
be called the technê of image making, the rendering of life into a
haunting semblance of itself.

http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/273538
________________________________

Visit the OED's home page at http://www.oed.com
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l