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πρωτόγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρωτόγονος πρωτόγονον

Structure: πρωτογον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. first-born, firstling, first-created
  2. high-born
  3. first-ordained

Examples

  • ἐλέησον λαόν, Κύριε, κεκλημένον ἐπ̓ ὀνόματί σου καὶ Ἰσραήλ, ὃν πρωτογόνῳ ὡμοίωσασ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 36:11)
  • ταύτᾳ δ’ ἐν πρωτογόνῳ τελετᾷ παρέσταν μὲν ἄρα Μοῖραι σχεδὸν ὅ τ’ ἐξελέγχων μόνοσ ἀλάθειαν ἐτήτυμον χρόνοσ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 10 14:2)
  • κόψασ ἐκ φηγοῦ σε τὸν αὐτόφλοιον ἔθηκεν Πᾶνα Φιλοξενίδησ, ὁ κλυτὸσ αἰγελάτησ, θύσασ αἰγιβάτην πολιὸν τράγον, ἔν τε γάλακτι πρωτογόνῳ βωμοὺσ τοὺσ ἱεροὺσ μεθύσασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 991)

Synonyms

  1. first-born

  2. high-born

Related

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

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