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τέκνωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέκνωσις τέκνωσεως

Structure: τεκνωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from tekno/w

Sense

  1. a begetting, bearing

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰ γὰρ τεκνώσεισ φησὶ παῖδ’, ἀποκτενεῖ σ1’ ὁ φύσ. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 13:3)
  • εἰ γὰρ τεκνώσεισ παῖδ’, ἀποκτενεῖ σ’ ὁ φύσ, καὶ πᾶσ σὸσ οἶκοσ βήσεται δι’ αἵματοσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:9)
  • τῆσ δὲ περὶ τοὺσ γάμουσ καὶ τὰσ τεκνώσεισ κοινωνίασ τὸ ἀζηλότυπον ὀρθῶσ καὶ πολιτικῶσ ἐμποιοῦντεσ ἀμφότεροι τοῖσ ἀνδράσιν οὐ κατὰ πᾶν εἰσ τοῦτο συνηνέχθησαν, ἀλλ’ ὁ Ῥωμαῖοσ μὲν ἀνὴρ ἱκανῶσ ἔχων παιδοτροφίασ, ὑφ’ ἑτέρου δὲ πεισθεὶσ δεομένου τέκνων, ἐξίστατο τῆσ γυναικόσ, ἐκδόσθαι καὶ μετεκδόσθαι κύριοσ ὑπάρχων, ὁ δὲ Λάκων, οἴκοι τῆσ γυναικὸσ οὔσησ παρ’ αὐτῷ καὶ τοῦ γάμου μένοντοσ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ δικαίων, μετεδίδου τῷ πείσαντι τῆσ κοινωνίασ εἰσ τέκνωσιν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, chapter 3 1:1)
  • ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον κατοψόμεθα τὴν διαφοράν, ἐπὶ τὰ πρεσβύτατα καὶ μέγιστα τῶν κοινωνικῶν ἔργων καὶ καθηκόντων τὰ περὶ τὰσ γενέσεισ καὶ τεκνώσεισ τὸν λόγον τρέψαντεσ. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 321)
  • "δι’ ἀλλήλων ποιεῖται τὰσ τεκνώσεισ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 17:19)

Synonyms

  1. a begetting

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

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