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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

  • τούτων δὲ ἐνηλίκων γενομένων ἐτελεύτησεν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῶν, μακάριοσ μὲν ἐκεῖνοσ, τὸν γὰρ τῆσ εὐτεκνίασ βίον ἐπιζήσασ τὸν τῆσ ἀτεκνίασ οὐκ ὠδυνήθη καιρόν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 18:9)
  • ἱκετεύσατε δ’, ὦ κόραι, τὸ παλαιὸν Ἐρεχθέωσ γένοσ εὐτεκνίασ χρονίου καθαροῖσ μαντεύμασι κῦρσαι. (Euripides, Ion, choral, strophe 12)
  • ἐνίων δὲ τητώμενοι ῥυπαίνουσι τὸ μακάριον, οἱο͂ν εὐγενείασ εὐτεκνίασ κάλλουσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 90:1)
  • ταύταισ ταῖσ εὐχαῖσ πολλὰ προσχειρουργήσασ ἐξ ἐπιστήμησ ἔτρεψε τὴν πηγήν, καὶ τὸ πρὶν ὀρφανίασ αὐτοῖσ καὶ λιμοῦ παραίτιον ὕδωρ ἔκτοτε εὐτεκνίασ καὶ κόρου χορηγὸν κατέστη. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 525:1)
  • ἰδίᾳ δὲ ὀλοφυρομένη πρὸσ τὰσ θεραπαινίδασ τοῦτον εἰληφέναι τῆσ εὐτεκνίασ ἔλεγε καρπὸν τὸ μηδὲ θάψαι τὸν υἱόν, ὑφ’ οὗ ταφήσεσθαι προσεδόκησεν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 619:1)

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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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