Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄτοκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄτοκος

Structure: ἀτοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. having never yet brought forth, never having had a child
  2. not bearing interest

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • νοσήματά τε τάδε ἐπιχώρια εἶναι‧ πρῶτον μὲν τὰσ γυναῖκασ νοσερὰσ καὶ Ῥοώδεασ εἶναι‧ ἔπειτα πολλὰσ ἀτόκουσ ὑπὸ νούσου καὶ οὐ φύσει ἐκτιτρώσκεσθαί τε πυκνά‧ τοῖσί τε παιδίοισιν ἐπιπίπτειν σπασμούσ τε καὶ ἄσθματα καὶ ἃ νομίζουσι τὸ παιδίον ποιεῖν καὶ ἱερὴν νοῦσον εἶναι‧ τοῖσι δὲ ἀνδράσι δυσεντερίασ καὶ διαρροίασ καὶ ἠπιάλουσ καὶ πυρετοὺσ πολυχρονίουσ χειμερινοὺσ καὶ ἐπινυκτίδασ πολλὰσ καὶ αἱμορροί̈δασ ἐν τῇ ἕδρῃ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , iii.4)

Synonyms

  1. not bearing interest

Related

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

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