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νεογνός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεογνός νεογνόν

Structure: νεογν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. for neo/gonos, Hdt., Aesch., etc.

Sense

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τὸ νεογνὸν δὲ τὸ ἐν τῷ νηπίῳ ὅμωσ ἄγριον καὶ ἐν τῷ ἁπαλῷ ἤδη φοβερόν, καὶ τοῦτο θαυμαστὸν οἱο͂ν ἔδοξέ μοι, καὶ ὅτι παιδικῶσ μάλα πρὸσ τὸν σκύμνον τοῦ λέοντοσ ἀναβλέπουσι, μεταξὺ τῆσ θηλῆσ ἑκάτεροσ ἐπειλημμένοι ἐν χρῷ τῇ μητρὶ προσιστάμενοι. (Lucian, Zeuxis 12:1)
  • Τὸ νεογνὸν ταῦτα, ὃ μόλισ ἕστηκε, τὸ ἐν τοῖσ σπαργάνοισ; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:1)
  • ὦ θύγατερ ‐ ἄρτι γάρ σε πρὸσ δόμοισ ὁρῶ ‐ ἥκω φέρων σοι τῶν ἐμῶν βοσκημάτων ποίμνησ νεογνὸν θρέμμ’ ὑποσπάσασ τόδε στεφάνουσ τε τευχέων τ’ ἐξελὼν τυρεύματα, παλαιόν τε θησαύρισμα Διονύσου τόδε ὀσμῇ κατῆρεσ, μικρόν, ἀλλ’ ἐπεσβαλεῖν ἡδὺ σκύφον τοῦδ’ ἀσθενεστέρῳ ποτῷ. (Euripides, episode 1:1)
  • ὦ σύγγον’, ἐλθὼν λαὸν εἰσ αὐτόχθονα κλεινῶν Ἀθηνῶν ‐ οἶσθα γὰρ θεᾶσ πόλιν ‐ λαβὼν βρέφοσ νεογνὸν ἐκ κοίλησ πέτρασ αὐτῷ σὺν ἄγγει σπαργάνοισί θ’ οἷσ ἔχει ἔνεγκε Δελφῶν τἀμὰ πρὸσ χρηστήρια, καὶ θὲσ πρὸσ αὐταῖσ εἰσόδοισ δόμων ἐμῶν. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:8)
  • βρέφοσ νεογνὸν μητρὸσ ἦν ἐν ἀγκάλαισ. (Euripides, Ion, episode 1:11)

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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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