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δύστεκνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύστεκνος δύστεκνον

Structure: δυστεκν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/knon

Sense

  1. unfortunate in children

Examples

  • πύλασ δ’, ὅπωσ εἰσῆλθ’, ἐπιρράξασ’ ἔσω καλεῖ τὸν ἤδη Λάϊον πάλαι νεκρόν, μνήμην παλαιῶν σπερμάτων ἔχουσ’, ὑφ’ ὧν θάνοι μὲν αὐτόσ, τὴν δὲ τίκτουσαν λίποι τοῖσ οἷσιν αὐτοῦ δύστεκνον παιδουργίαν. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. unfortunate in children

Similar forms

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

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