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πολύτεκνος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύτεκνος πολύτεκνον

Structure: πολυτεκν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with many children, prolific

Examples

  • ποτάμιον γὰρ ὑπάρχον καὶ χερσαῖον τὰσ μὲν ἡμέρασ ἐν τοῖσ ὕδασι ποιεῖ γυμναζόμενον κατὰ βάθουσ, τὰσ δὲ νύκτασ ἐπὶ τῆσ χώρασ κατανέμεται τόν τε σῖτον καὶ τὸν χόρτον, ὥστε εἰ πολύτεκνον ἦν τοῦτο τὸ ζῷον καὶ κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ἔτικτεν, ἐλυμαίνετ’ ἂν ὁλοσχερῶσ τὰσ γεωργίασ τὰσ κατ’ Αἴγυπτον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 35 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. with many children

Related

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

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