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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

  • 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)
  • κοινῶσ δὲ τῶν ἀγαθῶν μικτὰ μέν ἐστιν εὐτεκνία καὶ εὐγηρία, ἁπλοῦν δ’ ἐστὶν ἀγαθὸν ἐπιστήμη. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 98:3)
  • 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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