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παιδοποιός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδοποιός παιδοποιόν

Structure: παιδοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poie/w

Sense

  1. begetting or bearing children
  2. generative

Examples

  • σὲ δ’, ὦ τέκνον, καὶ γάμοισι δὴ κλύω ζυγέντα παιδοποιὸν ἁδονὰν ξένοισιν ἐν δόμοισ ἔχειν ξένον τε κῆδοσ ἀμφέπειν, ἄλαστα ματρὶ τᾷδε Λα‐ ίῳ τε τῷ παλαιγενεῖ, γάμων ἐπακτὸν ἄταν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 2:3)
  • ὅ τε λόγοσ πολλὸσ ἐν Σπάρτῃ ὡσ Ἀρίστωνι σπέρμα παιδοποιὸν οὐκ ἐνῆν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 68 4:3)
  • καλὸν γὰρ εἶναι καὶ δίκαιον παιδοποιὸν παραλαμβάνοντα θεραπεύειν αὐτῆσ τὸ βουλητὸν, ἀλλὰ μὴ τὴν ἰδίαν ἡδονὴν διώκοντα μόνον τοῦ κατ’ αὐτὴν ἀμελεῖν κεχαρισμένου. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 328:1)

Synonyms

  1. begetting or bearing children

  2. generative

Related

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

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