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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

  • ὦ παιδοποιοὶ συμφοραί, πόνοι βροτῶν· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 4:20)
  • ἡρ́πασε γὰρ Ἀριάδνην καὶ Ἀντιόπην καὶ Ἀναξὼ τὴν Τροιζηνίαν, ἐπὶ πάσαισ δὲ τὴν Ἑλένην, παρηκμακὼσ οὐκ ἀκμάζουσαν, ἀλλὰ νηπίαν καὶ ἀώρον αὐτὸσ ὡρ́αν ἔχων ἤδη γάμων πεπαῦσθαι καὶ νομίμων ἔπειτα διὰ τὴν αἰτίαν οὐ γὰρ ἀξιώτεραί γε παιδοποιοὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησιν Ἐρεχθηίδων καὶ Κεκροπίδων αἱ Τροιζηνίων καὶ Λακώνων καὶ Ἀμαζόνων ἀνέγγυοι θυγατέρεσ ἦσαν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 6 1:3)

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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