Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τεκνογόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεκνογόνος τεκνογόνον

Structure: τεκνογον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. begetting or bearing children

Examples

  • δυσδαίμων σφιν ἁ τεκοῦσα πρὸ πασᾶν γυναικῶν ὁπόσαι τεκνογόνοι κέκληνται. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 32)

Synonyms

  1. begetting or bearing children

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

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