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ἔκγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκγονος ἔκγονον

Structure: ἐκγον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)kgi/gnomai

Sense

  1. born of, sprung from
  2. a child, son or daughter, descendants, offspring

Examples

  • ἐλθοῦσ’ ἐσ οἴκουσ, ἣ τὰ πάντ’ ἐπίσταται, τῆσ ποντίασ Νηρῇδοσ ἐκγόνου κόρησ, πυθοῦ πόσιν σὸν Θεονόησ, εἴτ’ ἔστ’ ἔτι εἴτ’ ἐκλέλοιπε φέγγοσ· (Euripides, Helen, episode 4:21)
  • ἀσπαζόμενον δὲ αὐτοὺσ Λατῖνον τῇ τε ἄλλῃ θεραπείᾳ περιέπειν εὖ καὶ ἐκγόνου ἄρρενοσ ἄπαιδα τελευτῶντα διαδόχουσ μέρουσ τινὸσ τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ ἀρχῆσ καταλιπεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 73 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. born of

  2. a child

Related

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

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