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πρωτοτόκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρωτοτόκος

Structure: πρωτοτοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cf. prwto/tokos

Sense

  1. bearing her first-born

Examples

  • "αἱ δὲ πρωτοτόκοι ὀκτώ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 56 1:5)
  • καὶ ἐὰν ἄρα σκοπούμενόσ τι ὧν ἂν λέγῃσ ἡγήσωμαι εἴδωλον καὶ μὴ ἀληθέσ, εἶτα ὑπεξαιρῶμαι καὶ ἀποβάλλω, μὴ ἀγρίαινε ὥσπερ αἱ πρωτοτόκοι περὶ τὰ παιδία. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 59:1)

Synonyms

  1. bearing her first-born

Derived

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

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