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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

  • ἐκείνοισ οὖν διὰ ταύτησ τῆσ ἐμφάσεωσ χάριν ἀποδιδόναι περὶ τῆσ πολυτεκνίασ τῆσ ἑαυτῶν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 88 3:4)
  • πολλὰσ δὲ γαμοῦσιν ὠνητὰσ παρὰ τῶν γονέων, λαμβάνουσί τε ἀντιδιδόντεσ ζεῦγοσ βοῶν, ὧν τὰσ μὲν εὐπειθείασ χάριν τὰσ δ’ ἄλλασ ἡδονῆσ καὶ πολυτεκνίασ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 108:7)
  • γαμοῦσι δὲ πολλὰσ καὶ ἅμα παλλακὰσ τρέφουσι πλείουσ πολυτεκνίασ χάριν. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 3 34:3)
  • τιθέασι δὲ καὶ οἱ βασιλεῖσ ἆθλα πολυτεκνίασ κατ’ ἔτοσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 3 34:4)

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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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