Translation
technique; technology
Word origin
From Greek tekhnē, an art or craft, through the adjective tekhnikos, belonging to a craft. It reached Esperanto the way most scientific vocabulary did, as an already international word.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- tekhnē
- English cognates
- technique, technical, architect
Examples
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The new technology changed the whole of our work.
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He learned the technique from his father.
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Modern technology helps the doctor.
The -ik- in the middle looks like a suffix and is not one. It recurs in
, , , and a dozen more, which is exactly
why learners start treating it as an Esperanto affix for fields of study. It is
not. It is the Greek adjective ending -ikos, frozen inside each borrowed root
before the word ever reached Esperanto, and you cannot attach it to anything.
There is no *kuiriko for the art of cooking. The root here is -,
entire.
The meaning covers more ground than either English word. is a
technique, the particular way of doing a thing, and it is also technology, the
applied side of scienco as a whole. Where the
distinction matters, is available for the second sense, though a
great deal of Esperanto prose is happy with for both.
Around it: teknika for technical, o for a technician, and
o for a technicality, the thing somebody hides behind.
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