Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλότεκνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλότεκνος φιλότεκνον

Structure: φιλοτεκν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving one's children or offspring

Examples

  • πᾶν δὲ φιλότεκνον γένοσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 5:38)
  • διὸ καὶ τῶν ζῴων τὸ φιλότεκνον τοῖσ μονοτόκοισ ἰσχυρότερον ἐμφύεται, καὶ Ὅμηροσ· (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 2 10:1)
  • φιλότεκνον γὰρ τὸ θηρίον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 66 3:4)
  • δεινὸν γυναιξὶν αἱ δι’ ὠδίνων γοναί, καὶ φιλότεκνόν πωσ πᾶν γυναικεῖον γένοσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 3:1)

Related

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

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