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δύστεκνος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: dysteknos

Principal Part: δύστεκνος δύστεκνον

Structure: δυστεκν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: τέκνον

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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