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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

  • εὐτεκνία δὲ καὶ πολυτεκνία οὐκ ἄδηλα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 6:1)
  • ἰδίᾳ δὲ εὐτεκνία καὶ πολυτεκνία τὸ τὰ ἴδια τέκνα πολλὰ καὶ τοιαῦτα εἶναι, καὶ θήλεα καὶ ἄρρενα· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 6:4)

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

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