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πολυτεκνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυτεκνία

Structure: πολυτεκνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from polu/teknos

Sense

  1. abundance of children

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰ δή ἐστιν ἡ εὐδαιμονία τοιοῦτον, ἀνάγκη αὐτῆσ εἶναι μέρη εὐγένειαν, πολυφιλίαν, χρηστοφιλίαν, πλοῦτον, εὐτεκνίαν, πολυτεκνίαν, εὐγηρίαν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 4:1)
  • γαμεῖν δ’ ὅτι πλείστασ εἰσ πολυτεκνίαν· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 118:10)

Related

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

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