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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

  • "καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸν τὸν Ποσειδῶνα καὶ ὅλωσ τοὺσ πελαγικοὺσ θεοὺσ πολυτέκνουσ καὶ πολυγόνουσ ἀποφαίνουσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 9:8)
  • δύνασθαι δὲ καὶ πολυγόνουσ ποιεῖν καὶ ἀρρενογόνουσ καὶ θηλυγόνουσ διὰ φαρμακευτικῆσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 120:4)

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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