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ἀγχίτοκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγχίτοκος ἀγχίτοκη ἀγχίτοκον

Structure: ἀγχιτοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ti/ktw

Sense

  1. in the pangs of child-birth

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἁ Κοιογενὴσ ὁπότ’ ὠδίνεσσι θύοισ’ ἀγχιτόκοισ ἐπέβα νιν, δὴ τότε τέσσαρεσ ὀρθαὶ πρέμνων ἀπώρουσαν χθονίων, ἂν δ’ ἐπικράνοισ σχέθον πέτραν ἀδαμαντοπέδιλοι κίονεσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 5 4:7)

Synonyms

  1. in the pangs of child-birth

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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