Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

παιδογονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδογονία

Structure: παιδογονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from paidogo/nos

Sense

  1. a begetting of children

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

  • οὐδέν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, τὸ σοφόν μοι ἐγένετο τήν τε τῶν γυναικῶν τῆσ κτήσεωσ δυσχέρειαν ἐν τῷ πρόσθεν παραλιπόντι καὶ παιδογονίαν καὶ τὴν τῶν ἀρχόντων κατάστασιν, εἰδότι ὡσ ἐπίφθονόσ τε καὶ χαλεπὴ γίγνεσθαι ἡ παντελῶσ ἀληθήσ· (Plato, Republic, book 6 376:1)

Synonyms

  1. a begetting of children

Related

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

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