Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τεκνοποιός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεκνοποιός τεκνοποιόν

Structure: τεκνοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poie/w

Sense

  1. child-bearing, child-begetting

Examples

  • Ἄττησ δὲ ὅστισ ἦν, οὐδὲν οἱο͂́σ τε ἦν ἀπόρρητον ἐσ αὐτὸν ἐξευρεῖν, ἀλλὰ Ἑρμησιάνακτι μὲν τῷ τὰ ἐλεγεῖα γράψαντι πεποιημένα ἐστὶν ὡσ υἱόσ τε ἦν Καλαοῦ Φρυγὸσ καὶ ὡσ οὐ τεκνοποιὸσ ὑπὸ τῆσ μητρὸσ τεχθείη· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 16:2)

Synonyms

  1. child-bearing

Related

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

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