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πολύγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύγονος πολύγονον

Structure: πολυγον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. producing many at a birth, prolific

Examples

  • πολύγονον δὲ ἀσεβῶν πλῆθοσ οὐ χρησιμεύσει, καὶ ἐκ νόθων μοσχευμάτων οὐ δώσει ρίζαν εἰσ βάθοσ, οὐδὲ ἀσφαλῆ βάσιν ἑδράσει. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 4:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὀχευτικὸν τὸ ζῷον καὶ πολύγονον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 46 2:2)
  • πολύγονον δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ ζῷον ὁ λαγώσ, ὡσ Ξενοφῶν εἴρηκεν ἐν τῷ Κυνηγετικῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 63 1:1)
  • "φωλεύει δὲ περὶ δύο μῆνασ, ἐστὶ δὲ πολύγονον τὸ ζῷον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1045)
  • Πολύγονον δὲ οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε εἶναι φύσιν τοιαύτην. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxi.1)
  • "τοῦτο μὲν ὅτι ὁ λαγὼσ ὑπὸ πάντων θηρεύεται, καὶ θηρίου καὶ ὄρνιθοσ καὶ ἀνθρώπου, οὕτω δή τι πολύγονόν ἐστιν, ἐπικυίσκει τε μόνον πάντων θηρίων, καὶ τὸ μὲν δασὺ τῶν τέκνων ἐν τῇ γαστρί, τὸ δὲ ψιλόν, τὸ δὲ ἄρτι ἐν τῇσ μήτρῃσι πλάσσεται, τὸ δ’ ἐπαναιρέεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 63 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. producing many at a birth

Related

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

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