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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)
  • τὴν κατὰ τὴν Λυσιτανίαν ̔χώρα δ’ ἐστὶν αῦτη τῆσ Ἰβηρίασ, ἢν νῦν Ῥωμαῖοι Σπανίαν ὀνομάζουσι διηγούμενοσ εὐδαιμονίαν Πολύβιοσ ὁ Μεγαλοπολίτησ, ἀνδρῶν ἄριστε Τιμόκρατεσ, ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ καὶ τριακοστῇ τῶν ἱστοριῶν φησιν ὡσ αὐτόθι διὰ τὴν τοῦ ἀέροσ εὐκρασίαν καὶ τὰ ζῷα πολύγονα καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι, καὶ οἱ ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ καρποὶ οὐδέποτε φθείρονται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 81)
  • Θεόφραστοσ δέ φησιν ἐν τῷ περὶ ὑδάτων τὸ Νείλου ὕδωρ πολυγονώτατον καὶ γλυκύτατον διὸ καὶ λύειν τὰσ κοιλίασ τῶν πινόντων μῖξιν ἔχον λιτρώδη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 15 1:6)
  • καὶ τῶν γλυκέων δέ φησιν ὑδάτων ἔνια ἄγονα ἢ οὐ πολύγονα, ὡσ τὸ ἐν Φέτᾳ καὶ τὸ ἐν Πύρρᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 15 2:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὀχευτικὸν τὸ ζῷον καὶ πολύγονον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 46 2:2)
  • εἰ γὰρ καθεψόμενοσ ὑπὸ τῶν καυμάτων ὁ ποταμὸσ ἐγλυκαίνετο, πολύγονοσ οὐκ ἂν ἦν οὐδὲ ποικίλασ ἰχθύων καὶ θηρίων ἰδέασ εἶχε· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 40 7:2)

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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