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παιδογόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδογόνος παιδογόνον

Structure: παιδογον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gonh

Sense

  1. begetting children, father of a child by
  2. making fruitful

Examples

  • ‐ ἰὼ Ζεῦ, τᾶσ παλαιομάτοροσ παιδογόνε πόριοσ Ἰνάχου. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ φυτῶν ἐνιαχοῦ φησιν ὕδωρ γίνεσθαι παιδογόνον ὡσ ἐν Θεσπιαῖσ, ἐν Πύρρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 15 2:1)
  • Τήναν τὰν λαύραν τάσ τε δρύασ αἰπόλε κάμψασ σύκινον εὑρήσεισ ἀρτιγλυφὲσ ξόανον, τρισκελὲσ αὐτόφλοιον ἀνούατον, ἀλλὰ φάλητι παιδογόνῳ δυνατὸν Κύπριδοσ ἔργα τελεῖν. (Theocritus, Idylls1)
  • ἀλλὰ φάλητι παιδογόνῳ δυνατὸν Κύπριδοσ ἔργα τελεῖν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4372)
  • μήποτε γαστροβαρῆ πρὸσ σὸν λέχοσ ἀντιπρόσωπον παιδογόνῳ κλίνῃσ Κύπριδι τερπόμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 541)

Synonyms

  1. begetting children

  2. making fruitful

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

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