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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

  • τῇ δὲ ἄλλῃ τῶν παρθένων ἀγωγῇ καὶ τὰ περὶ τὰσ ἐκδόσεισ ὁμολογεῖ, τοῦ μὲν Λυκούργου πεπείρουσ καὶ ὀργώσασ νυμφεύοντοσ, ὅπωσ ἥ τε ὁμιλία, δεομένησ ἤδη τῆσ φύσεωσ, χάριτοσ ᾖ καὶ φιλίασ ἀρχὴ μᾶλλον ἢ μίσουσ καὶ φόβου παρὰ φύσιν βιαζομένων καὶ τὰ σώματα ῥώμην ἔχῃ πρόσ τὸ τὰσ κυήσεισ ἀναφέρειν καὶ τὰσ ὠδῖνασ, ὡσ ἐπ’ οὐδέν ἄλλο γαμουμένων ἢ τὸ τῆσ τεκνώσεωσ ἔργον, τῶν δὲ Ῥωμαίων δωδεκαετεῖσ καὶ νεωτέρασ ἐκδιδόντων οὕτω γὰρ ἂν μάλιστα καὶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὸ ἦθοσ καθαρὸν καὶ ἄθικτον ἐπὶ τῷ γαμοῦντι γίνεσθαι. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, chapter 4 1:1)
  • τοσαύτην δὲ τοῖσ γάμοισ ἐπιστήσασ αἰδῶ καὶ τάξιν, οὐδὲν ἧττον ἐξέβαλε τὴν κενὴν καὶ γυναικώδη ζηλοτυπίαν, ἐν καλῷ καταστήσασ ὕβριν μὲν καὶ ἀναξίαν πᾶσαν εἴργειν ἀπὸ τοῦ γάμου, παίδων δὲ καὶ τεκνώσεωσ κοινωνεῖν τοῖσ ἀξίοισ, καταγελῶντασ τῶν ὡσ ἄμικτα καὶ ἀκοινώνητα ταῦτα μετιόντων σφαγαῖσ καὶ πολέμοισ. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 15 6:1)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν ἀγέννητον καὶ ἄφθαρτον ὑποστησάμενοι τὸν κόσμον, ἀπεφήναντο καὶ τὸ γένοσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐξ αἰῶνοσ ὑπάρχειν, μηδέποτε τῆσ αὐτῶν τεκνώσεωσ ἀρχὴν ἐσχηκυίασ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 6 3:2)
  • ἀμφισβητοῦσι δὲ καὶ πόλεισ οὐκ ὀλίγαι Ἑλληνίδεσ τῆσ τούτου τεκνώσεωσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 66 1:2)

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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