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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

  • τούσδ’ ἄρ’ ἐκβαίνοντασ ἤδη δωμάτων ὁρῶ ξένουσ καὶ θεᾶσ κόσμουσ νεογνούσ τ’ ἄρνασ, ὡσ φόνῳ φόνον μυσαρὸν ἐκνίψω, σέλασ τε λαμπάδων τά τ’ ἄλλ’ ὅσα προυθέμην ἐγὼ ξένοισι καὶ θεᾷ καθάρσια. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, trochees35)
  • τῆσ δὲ Λαυρεντίασ, ἣ νεογνοὺσ παραλαβοῦσα ἐξεθρέψατο καὶ μητρὸσ οὐχ ἧττον ἠσπάζετο, δεομένησ καὶ παρηγορούσησ, ταύτῃ πειθόμενοσ ἀνίσταται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 87 4:2)
  • τοὺσ μὲν οὖν νεογνοὺσ τῶν νεβρῶν τοῦ ἦροσ θηρᾶν· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 2:4)
  • ἐδωρήσατό τε τῷ λαῷ τὸ πάσχα νεογνοὺσ ἐρίφουσ καὶ ἄρνασ δισμυρίουσ, βοῦσ δ’ εἰσ ὁλοκαυτώματα τρισχιλίουσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 10 88:2)

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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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