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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

  • καὶ παιδίον νήπιον ἐπὶ τρώγλην ἀσπίδων καὶ ἐπὶ κοίτην ἐκγόνων ἀσπίδων τὴν χεῖρα ἐπιβαλεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 11:8)
  • οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδεὶσ οἶκοσ ἀθλιώτεροσ τῶν Τανταλείων οὐδ’ ἔφυ ποτ’ ἐκγόνων. (Euripides, choral, lyric 1:2)
  • τίσ ἂν οὖν τῶν ἐκγόνων ἐκείνων τῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ τοιούτου τεθνηκότων οὐκ ἂν κατ’ ἀξίαν δόξειεν τὴν ἐπὶ τῇ στερήσει τοῦ πατρὸσ λύπην τῇ τοῦ πατρὸσ εὐχαρίστῳ μνήμῃ διορθουμένην; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 16 2:1)
  • τῶν δὲ κομιζομένων οὐδεὶσ οὐθὲν ἀγοράσασ εἰώθεν φέρειν οὔτε γὰρ ἡδονῆσ οὐδ’ ἀκρασίασ γαστρὸσ οὕνεκεν κομίζουσιν, ἀλλὰ τῆσ αὑτῶν ἀρετῆσ ἀπόδειξιν τῆσ κατὰ τὴν θήραν ποιούμενοι, πολλοὶ δὲ καὶ ποίμνια αὐτῶν τρέφοντεσ ἀφθόνωσ μεταδιδόασι τῶν ἐκγόνων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 19 3:2)
  • τῶν δὲ διδύμων ἐκγόνων σεμιδάλιδοσ τὰ δὲ ἐδέσματα ὠνόμασεν Ἀντιφάνησ ἐν Διδύμοισ οὑτωσί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 101 4:1)

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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