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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

  • τίνοσ βορᾶσ χρῄζοντα, νεογενὲσ δάκοσ; (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:17)
  • φῶμεν τοῦτο σὸν μὲν εἶναι οἱο͂ν νεογενὲσ παιδίον, ἐμὸν δὲ μαίευμα; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 115:2)
  • τὸ δὲ ταὐτὸν ἕτερον ἀποφαίνειν ἁμῇ γέ πῃ καὶ τὸ θάτερον ταὐτὸν καὶ τὸ μέγα σμικρὸν καὶ τὸ ὅμοιον ἀνόμοιον, καὶ χαίρειν οὕτω τἀναντία ἀεὶ προφέροντα ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ, οὔτε τισ ἔλεγχοσ οὗτοσ ἀληθινὸσ ἄρτι τε τῶν ὄντων τινὸσ ἐφαπτομένου δῆλοσ νεογενὴσ ὤν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 261:1)
  • κατὰ δὲ τὴν Εὔβοιαν βραχὺ μὲν πρὸ τούτων τῶν χρόνων Νεογένησ τισ ὄνομα μετ’ Ιἄσονοσ τοῦ Φεραίου συλλέξασ στρατιώτασ κατελάβετο τήν τε ἀκρόπολιν τῶν Ἑστιαιέων, καὶ τύραννον ἑαυτὸν ἀπέδειξε ταύτησ τῆσ χώρασ καὶ τῆσ τῶν Ὠρειτῶν πόλεωσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 29 15:1)

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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