Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

εὐτεκνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐτεκνία

Structure: εὐτεκνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the blessing of children, a breed of goodly children

Declension

First 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

  • τῶν γὰρ γινομένων αὐτῇ παίδων ἁπάντων τελευτώντων βαρυθυμοῦσαν ἐπὶ τῷ πάθει καὶ φθονοῦσαν ταῖσ τῶν ἄλλων γυναικῶν εὐτεκνίαισ κελεύειν ἐκ τῶν ἀγκαλῶν ἐξαρπάζεσθαι τὰ βρέφη καὶ παραχρῆμα ἀποκτέννειν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 41 3:3)

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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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