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ἔγκυος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκυος ἔγκυον

Structure: ἐγκυ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ku/w

Sense

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

  • αἱ δὲ Κρητικαὶ αἶγεσ, ὅταν τὸ δίκταμνον φάγωσιν, ἐκβάλλουσαι τὰ τοξεύματα ῥᾳδίωσ καταμαθεῖν ταῖσ ἐγκύοισ τὴν βοτάνην παρέσχον ἐκτρωτικὴν δύναμιν ἔχουσαν· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 20 9:2)
  • τῶν δὲ γυναικῶν τῶν εὐπόρων τινῶν μὲν καρκίνοισ σιδηροῖσ τὰ σφυρὰ πιέζων συνέτεινε, τινῶν δὲ τοὺσ τιτθοὺσ ἀπέτεμνεν, ταῖσ δ’ ἐγκύοισ πλίνθουσ ἐπὶ τὴν ὀσφῦν ἐπιτιθεὶσ τὸ ἔμβρυον ἀπὸ τοῦ βάρουσ ἐξέθλιβεν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 71 4:1)
  • διελθόντοσ δὲ τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν χρόνου ταῖσ ἐγκύοισ, τὸν μὲν Δία πρὸσ τὴν Ἡρακλέουσ γένεσιν ἐνεχθέντα τῇ διανοίᾳ προειπεῖν παρόντων ἁπάντων τῶν θεῶν ὅτι τὸν κατ’ ἐκείνην τὴν ἡμέραν Περσειδῶν γεννώμενον ποιήσει βασιλέα, τὴν δ’ Ἥραν ζηλοτυποῦσαν καὶ συνεργὸν ἔχουσαν Εἰλείθυιαν τὴν θυγατέρα, τῆσ μὲν Ἀλκμήνησ παρακατασχεῖν τὰσ ὠδῖνασ, τὸν δ’ Εὐρυσθέα πρὸ τοῦ καθήκοντοσ χρόνου πρὸσ τὸ φῶσ ἀγαγεῖν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 9 4:1)

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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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