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καλλιγένεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλλιγένεια

Structure: καλλιγενει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ge/nos

Sense

  1. bearer of a fair offspring

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

  • ἐνίοτε δὲ μήτε ἐρομένου τινὸσ μήτε πεμφθέντοσ, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ὅλωσ ὄντοσ ἐχρησμῴδει πρὸσ ἔκπληξιν τῶν ἀνοήτων, οἱο͂ν καὶ τοῦτο Δίζεαι ὅστισ σὴν ἄλοχον μάλα πάγχυ λεληθὼσ Καλλιγένειαν ὑπὲρ λεχέων σαλαγεῖ κατὰ δῶμα ; (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 50:1)
  • "διὰ τί τοῖσ θεσμοφορίοισ αἱ τῶν Ἐρετριέων γυναῖκεσ οὐ πρὸσ πῦρ ἀλλὰ πρὸσ ἥλιον ὀπτῶσι τὰ κρέα, καὶ Καλλιγένειαν οὐ καλοῦσιν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 311)
  • "διὰ τί τοῖσ θεσμοφορίοισ αἱ τῶν Ἐρετριέων γυναῖκεσ οὐ πρὸσ πῦρ ἀλλὰ πρὸσ ἥλιον ὀπτῶσι τὰ κρέα, καὶ Καλλιγένειαν οὐ καλοῦσιν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 311)

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

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