Standard Lemma guide

techno-

prefix · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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prefix

Meaning 1

Relating to technology.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- Proto-Indo-European *téḱ-sneh2der. Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-)der. English techno- Derived from Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-, “skill”).

Across languages

Translations

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: tegno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Albanian: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Aragonese: tecno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Armenian: տեխնո- (texno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Asturian: tecno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Azerbaijani: texno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Bashkir: техно- (texno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Basque: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Belarusian: тэхна- (texna-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Bulgarian: техно- (tehno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Carpathian Rusyn: техно- (texno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Catalan: tecno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Cebuano: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Czech: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Danish: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Dutch: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Esperanto: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Estonian: tehno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Finnish: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • French: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Galician: tecno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Georgian: ტექნო- (ṭekno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • German: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Greek: τεχνο- (techno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Ancient Greek: τεχνο- (tekhno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Haitian Creole: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Hebrew: טֶכְנוֹ־ (tekhno) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Hiligaynon: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Hungarian: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Ido: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Indonesian: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Interlingua: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Irish: teicni- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Italian: tecno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Kazakh: техно- (texno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Northern Kurdish: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Kyrgyz: техно- (tehno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Latin: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Latvian: tehno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Lithuanian: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Macedonian: техно- (tehno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Malagasy: teknô- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Malay: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Maltese: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Mongolian: техно- (texno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Norman: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Occitan: tecno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Polish: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Portuguese: tecno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Romanian: tehno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Romanian: техно- (tehno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Russian: техно- (texno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Serbo-Croatian: техно- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Serbo-Croatian: tehno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Sicilian: tecnu- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Slovak: techno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Slovene: tehno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Spanish: tecno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Swedish: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Tagalog: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Tajik: техно- (texno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Tatar: техно- (texno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Turkish: tekno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Turkmen: tehno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Ukrainian: техно- (texno-) — used to form words relating to technology
  • Uzbek: texno- — used to form words relating to technology
  • Yiddish: טעכנאָ־ (tekhno-) — used to form words relating to technology