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εὐτεκνία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: euteknia

Principal Part: εὐτεκνία

Structure: εὐτεκνι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

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

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐτεκνία εὐτεκνία εὐτεκνίαι
Genitive εὐτεκνίας εὐτεκνίαιν εὐτεκνιῶν
Dative εὐτεκνίᾳ εὐτεκνίαιν εὐτεκνίαις
Accusative εὐτεκνίαν εὐτεκνία εὐτεκνίας
Vocative εὐτεκνία εὐτεκνία 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, οἱο῀ν 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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