Hellas Alive Dictionary - ατεκνος

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ἄτεκνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄτεκνος

Structure: ἀτεκν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/knon

Sense

without children, childless
destroying children

Declension

First/Second declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ά̓τεκνος	ά̓τεκνον
	Genitive	ἀτέκνου	ἀτέκνου
	Dative	ἀτέκνῳ	ἀτέκνῳ
	Accusative	ά̓τεκνον	ά̓τεκνον
	Vocative	ά̓τεκνε	ά̓τεκνον
Dual	N/A/V	ἀτέκνω	ἀτέκνω
Dual	G/D	ἀτέκνοιν	ἀτέκνοιν
Plural	Nominative	ά̓τεκνοι	ά̓τεκνα
	Genitive	ἀτέκνων	ἀτέκνων
	Dative	ἀτέκνοις	ἀτέκνοις
	Accusative	ἀτέκνους	ά̓τεκνα
	Vocative	ά̓τεκνοι	ά̓τεκνα

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ά̓τεκνος ἀτέκνου	ἀτεκνότερος ἀτεκνοτέρου	ἀτεκνότατος ἀτεκνοτάτου
Adverb	ἀτέκνως	ἀτεκνότερον	ἀτεκνότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

οὐδ’ Ἄρτεμισ λοχία προσφθέγξαιτ’ ἂν τὰσ ἀτέκνουσ. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, strophe 12)
Καὶ μὴν πρόδηλόσ γε ὁ ἔρωσ οὑτοσὶ πολὺσ ὢν ὁ περὶ τοὺσ ἀτέκνουσ καὶ πλουσίουσ γέροντασ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 5:1)
, ἢ τοὺσ μογεροὺσ καὶ δυσδαίμονασ ἀτέκνουσ κλαύσω πολεμάρχουσ; (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, anapests3)
ὅτε Λακεδαιμόνιοι Μεσήνην ἐπολέμουν καὶ χῆροσ ἀνδρῶν ἡ πόλισ ἦν, δεομέναισ ταῖσ γυναιξὶ καὶ μάλιστα ταῖσ ἐν ἀκμῇ παρθένοισ μὴ περιιδεῖν τὰσ μὲν ἀγάμουσ, τὰσ δὲ ἀτέκνουσ γινομένασ ἐπέμποντό τινεσ ἀεὶ νέοι παραλλὰξ ἀπὸ τοῦ στρατοπέδου τῆσ μίξεωσ τῶν γυναικῶν ἕνεκα καὶ συνῄεσαν, αἷσ ἐπιτύχοιεν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 19, chapter 1 2:1)
οὔτε γὰρ ἀτέκνουσ τε καὶ ἀγάμουσ ἅπαντασ εἶναι δυνατὸν ἦν τοὺσ ἐξελθόντασ εἰσ τὸ φρούριον Φαβίουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 22 2:1)

Synonyms

without children
- ἄγονος (childless)
- ὀρφανός (childless)
destroying children
- ἔντεκνος (having children)

ἐπίγαμος (marriageable)
ἄγαμος (not married)
ἄοικος (houseless)
ὁμοπάτριος (by the same father)
ἀνέγγυος (not accredited)
γηροβοσκός (feeding or tending in old age)
ἄπολις (one without city)
στέρομαι (to be wanting in)
κληρονόμος (one who receives a portion)
κεδνός (careful)
εὔμοιρος (blest with possessions)
ἀνέκδοτος (not given in marriage)
ἧλιξ (of the same age)
τίκτω (I beget)
οἰκτίρω ()
οἰκτρός (pitiable)
δύσποτμος (unlucky)
εὔτεκνος (blest with children)
τηθίς (a father's or mother's sister)
ζηλωτός (to be emulated)
εὔπαις (blest in one's children)
φονεύς (murderer)
δυσδαίμων (of ill fortune)
παιδοφόνος (killing children)
γηραιός (aged)
θάπτω (I honour with funeral rites)
ὁμομήτριος (born of the same mother)
λέκτρον (a couch)
γαμέτης (a husband)
φιλόψυχος (loving one's life)

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

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without children

destroying children

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Sense

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without children

destroying children

Related

Similar forms

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