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τοκάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τοκάς τοκάδος

Structure: τοκαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ti/ktw

Sense

  1. of or for breeding
  2. having just brought forth, with cubs, in labour

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τοκάς τοκάδε τοκάδες
Genitive τοκάδος τοκάδοιν τοκάδων
Dative τοκάδι τοκάδοιν τοκάσιν*
Accusative τοκάδα τοκάδε τοκάδας
Vocative τοκά τοκάδε τοκάδες

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

  • παρεσκεύαστο δὲ πολλὰ καὶ ποικίλα, δίχηλα ὑειά καὶ σχελίδεσ καὶ ἠτριαία καὶ τοκάδοσ ὑὸσ τὸ ἐμβρυοδόχον ἔντερον καὶ λοβὸσ ἐκ ταγήνου καὶ μυττωτὸσ καὶ ἀβυρτάκη καὶ τοιαῦταί τινεσ καρυκεῖαι καὶ θρυμματίδεσ καὶ θρῖα καὶ μελιτοῦτται· (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 6:3)
  • ὅσαι δὲ τοκάδεσ ἦσαν, ἐκπαγλούμεναι τέκν’ ἐν χεροῖν ἔπαλλον, ὡσ πρόσω πατρὸσ γένοιντο, διαδοχαῖσ ἀμείβουσαι χερῶν· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 3:6)
  • τοκάδα γὰρ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἔχει. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:9)
  • Φεἰδευ τᾶν ἐρίφων, φείδευ λύκε τᾶν τοκάδων μευ, μηδ’ ἀδίκει μ’, ὅτι μικκὸσ ἐὼν πολλαῖσιν ὁμαρτέω. (Theocritus, Idylls, 50)
  • " μάτηρ μὲν κεφαλὰν μυκήσατο παιδὸσ ἑλοῖσα, ὅσσόν περ τοκάδοσ τελέθει μύκημα λεαίνασ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 11)

Synonyms

  1. of or for breeding

Related

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

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