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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

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	έ̓γκυος	έ̓γκυον
	Genitive	ἐγκύου	ἐγκύου
	Dative	ἐγκύῳ	ἐγκύῳ
	Accusative	έ̓γκυον	έ̓γκυον
	Vocative	έ̓γκυε	έ̓γκυον
Dual	N/A/V	ἐγκύω	ἐγκύω
Dual	G/D	ἐγκύοιν	ἐγκύοιν
Plural	Nominative	έ̓γκυοι	έ̓γκυα
	Genitive	ἐγκύων	ἐγκύων
	Dative	ἐγκύοις	ἐγκύοις
	Accusative	ἐγκύους	έ̓γκυα
	Vocative	έ̓γκυοι	έ̓γκυα

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	έ̓γκυος ἐγκύου	ἐγκυώτερος ἐγκυωτέρου	ἐγκυώτατος ἐγκυωτάτου
Adverb	ἐγκύως	ἐγκυώτερον	ἐγκυώτατα

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

τὸν δὲ Ἀμένωφιν οὐχ ὑπομείναντα τὴν ἔφοδον αὐτῶν εἰσ Αἰθιοπίαν φυγεῖν καταλιπόντα τὴν γυναῖκα ἔγκυον, ἣν κρυβομένην ἔν τισι σπηλαίοισ τεκεῖν παῖδα ὄνομα Ῥαμέσσην, ὃν ἀνδρωθέντα ἐκδιῶξαι τοὺσ Ιοὐδαίουσ εἰσ τὴν Συρίαν ὄντασ περὶ εἴκοσι μυριάδασ καὶ τὸν πατέρα Ἀμένωφιν ἐκ τῆσ Αἰθιοπίασ καταδέξασθαι. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 324:1)
"τὸν δ’ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ νόμον ἆρ’ οὐκ εἰκότωσ ὑμῖν ἀπογράψασθαι δοκοῦσιν ἔνιοι τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ὃσ κελεύει τὴν ἔγκυον, ἂν ἁλῷ θανάτου, μέχρι τέκῃ, φυλάττειν; (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 72)
Παπίριοσ Τόλουκερ γήμασ Ιοὐλίαν Ποῦλχραν ἔσχεν ἓξ θυγατέρασ καὶ ἴσουσ ἄρρενασ, τούτων ὁ πρεσβύτατοσ Παπίριοσ Ῥωμᾶνοσ τῆσ ἀδελφῆσ ἐρασθεὶσ Κανουλίασ ἔγκυον ἐποίησε. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 28 1:2)
Ἄρησ δ’ ἐν σχήματι ποιμένοσ ἔγκυον ἐποίησεν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 362)
τούτων ὁ πρεσβύτατοσ Παπίριοσ Ῥωμᾶνοσ τῆσ ἀδελφῆσ ἐρασθεὶσ Κανουλίασ ἔγκυον ἐποίησε. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 28 2:3)

τοκετός (birth)
νοθεία (birth out of wedlock)
Ῥωμανός (Synonym of Ῥωμαῖος ‎)
ἀνδροδάμας (man-taming)
τηλέγονος (born far from one's father or fatherland)
ἀκταῖος (on the coast)
φιλομήλα (the nightingale)
ἀνέγγυος (not accredited)
Δηιάνειρα (destroying her spouse)
Κέκροψ (Cecropian)
βαλλήν (a king)
βρέφος (baby)
παρθένια (songs sung by maidens)
παρθενίης (the son of a concubine)
κλυταιμνήστρα ()
θεραπαινίς ()
αἴητος (terrible)
ἑκυρά (a mother-in-law)
ἁλιρρόθιος (dashed over by the sea)
φορβάς (giving pasture or food)
λεύκιππος (riding or driving white horses)
ἐνήλικος (of age)
νεόγαμος (newly married)
μητρυιά (a step-mother)
πρεσβῦτις (an aged woman)
Ἰνώ (Ino)
καθαιρέτης (a putter down)
τηρέω (to watch over)
ἐγκύμων (pregnant)
κυηρός (pregnant)

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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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