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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

  • τούτοισ ἀμφοτέροισ αἱ γυναῖκεσ ἐγκύμονεσ ἅμα γενόμεναι, τὰσ πρωτοτόκουσ ἐκφέρουσι γονὰσ ἄρρενα βρέφη τρίδυμα, καὶ αὐτὰ οἱ γεινάμενοι πρὸσ οἰωνοῦ λαβόντεσ ἀγαθοῦ καὶ πόλει καὶ οἴκῳ τῷ σφετέρῳ τρέφουσιν ἅπαντα καὶ τελειοῦσιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 13 6:2)

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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