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εὔτεκνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔτεκνος εὔτεκνον

Structure: εὐτεκν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/knon

Sense

  1. blest with children, that gives promise of fair children, of fair children

Examples

  • γενοίμεθ’ ὧδε ματέρεσ γενοίμεθ’ εὔτεκνοι, φίλα Παλλάσ, ἃ δράκοντοσ αἷμα λιθόβολον κατειργάσω, Καδμείαν μέριμναν ὁρμήσασ’ ἐπ’ ἔργον, ὅθεν ἐπέσυτο τάνδε γαῖαν ἁρπαγαῖσι δαιμόνων τισ ἄτα. (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 15)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ ἄρχοντεσ καὶ δυνάμενοι καὶ πολύφιλοι καὶ εὔτεκνοι καὶ ὁτιοῦν τῶν τοιούτων. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 9 9:3)

Synonyms

  1. blest with children

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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