teicodovmo"
teico-dovmo" , on , ( devmw ) building walls.
teicolevti"
teic-olevti" , ido", hJ , destroyer of walls, ap. Plut.
teicomacevw
teicoma±cevw , f. hvsw , to fight the walls, i.e. to besiege, Hdt ., Thuc. , etc. ; t. tiniv Ar .; prov" tina Plut.
From teicomavch"
teicomavch"
teico-mavch" »a±1/4, ou, oJ , ( mavcomai ) storming walls, an engineer, Ar. Hence teicomaciva
teicomaciva
teicoma±civa , Ion. -ivh , hJ , a battle with walls, i.e. a siege, Hdt .: the 12th Iliad was so called, Plat.
teicomelhv"
teico-melhv" , ev" , ( mevlo" ) walling by music, of Amphions lyre, Anth.
teicopoiov"
teico-poiov" , ovn , ( poievw ) building walls or forts, Luc.
II. oiJ teicopoioiv , at Athens, officers chosen to repair the city-walls, Dem ., Aeschin.
tei`co"
tei`co" , eo", tov , a wall, esp. a wall round a city, townwall, in sing. and pl. , Hom. ; teicevwn kiqw`ne" coats of walls, i.e. walls one within the other, Hdt. ; tei`co" ejlauvnein, devmein Il., etc. ; oijkodomei`n Hdt. ; t. peribavllesqai moenia sibi circumdare, Id.; also, t. peribavllesqai th;n povlin Id.; t. rJhvxasqai to breach the wall, Il.; so in Prose, t. kaqairei`n, kataskavptein Hdt ., etc.
2. ta; makra; teivch at Athens were lines of wall connecting the city-wall with the harbours, called respectively to; bovreion or Peiraïc, and to; novtion or Phaleric wall.— tei`co", teivch differ from toi`co" , as Lat. murus, moenia from paries, city-walls from a house-wall; cf. teicivon .
II.
any fortification, a castle, fort,
Hdt
.:
pl.
of
a single fort, fortifications,
Id.
III.
a fortified town,
Id.,
Xen.
,
etc.
; so in
pl.
(Deriv. uncertain.)
teicofulakevw
teicofuØla±kevw , f. hvsw , to guard the walls, Plut. From teicofuvlax
teicofuvlax
teico-fuvlax »uØ1/4, a±ko", oJ , a guard of the walls, Hdt.
teicuvdrion
teicuvdrion , tov , Dim. of tei`co" , Xen.
teivw"
teivw" , Adv. , Ep. and Ion. for tevw" .
tevke