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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐτεκνία εὐτεκνίᾱ εὐτεκνίαι
Genitive εὐτεκνίᾱς εὐτεκνίαιν εὐτεκνιῶν
Dative εὐτεκνίᾱͅ εὐτεκνίαιν εὐτεκνίαις
Accusative εὐτεκνίᾱν εὐτεκνίᾱ εὐτεκνίᾱς
Vocative εὐτεκνίᾱ εὐτεκνίᾱ εὐτεκνίαι

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

  • εὐτεκνία δὲ καὶ πολυτεκνία οὐκ ἄδηλα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 6:1)
  • ἔστιν δὲ τῷ κοινῷ μὲν εὐτεκνία, νεότησ ἂν ᾖ πολλὴ καὶ ἀγαθή, ἀγαθὴ δὲ κατ’ ἀρετὴν σώματοσ, οἱο͂ν μέγεθοσ, κάλλοσ, ἰσχύν, δύναμιν ἀγωνιστικήν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 6:2)
  • ἰδίᾳ δὲ εὐτεκνία καὶ πολυτεκνία τὸ τὰ ἴδια τέκνα πολλὰ καὶ τοιαῦτα εἶναι, καὶ θήλεα καὶ ἄρρενα· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 6:4)
  • Κασσιόπασ ἁ λάλοσ εὐτεκνία· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 1476)
  • 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)
  • ἔχομεν δ’ ἔνδικα, καὶ σοί τι πάρεστι σθένοσ ὥστ’ εὐτεκνίᾳ δυσ‐ τυχίαν τὰν παρ’ ἐμοὶ καθελεῖν· (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 22)

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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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