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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

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative εύ̓τεκνος εύ̓τεκνον
Genitive εὐτέκνου εὐτέκνου
Dative εὐτέκνῳ εὐτέκνῳ
Accusative εύ̓τεκνον εύ̓τεκνον
Vocative εύ̓τεκνε εύ̓τεκνον
DualN/A/V εὐτέκνω εὐτέκνω
G/D εὐτέκνοιν εὐτέκνοιν
PluralNominative εύ̓τεκνοι εύ̓τεκνα
Genitive εὐτέκνων εὐτέκνων
Dative εὐτέκνοις εὐτέκνοις
Accusative εὐτέκνους εύ̓τεκνα
Vocative εύ̓τεκνοι εύ̓τεκνα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective εύ̓τεκνος εὐτέκνου εὐτεκνότερος εὐτεκνοτέρου εὐτεκνότατος εὐτεκνοτάτου
Adverb εὐτέκνως εὐτεκνότερον εὐτεκνότατα

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

  • οὐκέτ’ εὔτεκνοσ, οὐκέτ’ εὔ‐ παισ, οὐδ’ εὐτυχίασ μέτε‐ στίν μοι κουροτόκοισ ἐν Ἀργείαισ· (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἡ γὰρ τεκοῦσα τόνδε πατρὶσ εὔτεκνοσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 5:21)
  • ἀλλ’ εὔτεκνοσ ξυνωρίσ; (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 2:6)
  • "ὁ κύκνοσ εὔτεκνόσ ἐστι καὶ μάχιμοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 49 1:2)
  • εὔτεκνοσ δὲ οὖσα Νιόβη τῆσ Λητοῦσ εὐτεκνοτέρα εἶπεν ὑπάρχειν· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 5 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. blest with children

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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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