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ἄτεκνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄτεκνος

Structure: ἀτεκν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/knon

Sense

  1. without children, childless
  2. destroying children

Examples

  • ὃσ ἂν κοιμηθῇ μετὰ τῆσ συγγενοῦσ αὐτοῦ, ἀσχημοσύνην τῆσ συγγενείασ αὐτοῦ ἀπεκάλυψεν, ἄτεκνοι ἀποθανοῦνται. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 20:20)
  • ὃσ ἐὰν λάβῃ γυναῖκα τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἀκαθαρσία ἐστίν. ἀσχημοσύνην τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀπεκάλυψεν, ἄτεκνοι ἀποθανοῦνται. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 20:21)
  • διὰ τοῦτο δὸσ τοὺσ υἱοὺσ αὐτῶν εἰσ λιμὸν καὶ ἄθροισον αὐτοὺσ εἰσ χεῖρασ μαχαίρασ. γενέσθωσαν αἱ γυναῖκεσ αὐτῶν ἄτεκνοι καὶ χῆραι, καὶ οἱ ἄνδρεσ αὐτῶν γενέσθωσαν ἀνῃρημένοι θανάτῳ καὶ οἱ νεανίσκοι αὐτῶν πεπτωκότεσ μαχαίρᾳ ἐν πολέμῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 18:21)
  • ἡμεῖσ δ’ ἄτεκνοι τοὐπὶ σ’· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode24)
  • ἄπαιδεσ οὐκέτ’ ἐσμὲν οὐδ’ ἄτεκνοι· (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric15)

Synonyms

  1. without children

  2. destroying children

Related

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

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