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νεογενής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεογενής νεογενές

Structure: νεογενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. new-born

Examples

  • τίνα οὖν ἂν τρόπον εὐθὺσ ἐμφύοιθ’ ἡμῖν ὁπότερον βουληθεῖμεν τῷ νεογενεῖ, φράζειν δὴ πειρατέον ὅπωσ τισ καὶ καθ’ ὅσον εὐπορεῖ τούτων. (Plato, Laws, book 7 22:1)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ μέγεθοσ ἔχουσι νεογενεῖ καμήλῳ παραπλήσιον, τὰσ δὲ κεφαλὰσ πεφρικυίασ θριξὶ λεπταῖσ, τοὺσ δ’ ὀφθαλμοὺσ μεγάλουσ καὶ κατὰ τὴν χρόαν μέλανασ, ἀπαραλλάκτουσ κατὰ τὸν τύπον καὶ τὸ χρῶμα τοῖσ τῶν καμήλων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 50 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. new-born

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

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