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ὠκυτόκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠκυτόκος ὠκυτόκον

Structure: ὠκυτοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. causing quick and easy birth, with quickening, fertilising power

Examples

  • ταύτασ μέν νυν τῇ Εἰλειθυίῃ ἀποφερούσασ ἀντὶ τοῦ ὠκυτόκου τὸν ἐτάξαντο φόρον ἀπικέσθαι, τὴν δὲ Ἄργην τε καὶ τὴν Ὦπιν ἅμα αὐτοῖσι θεοῖσι ἀπικέσθαι λέγουσι καὶ σφι τιμὰσ ἄλλασ δεδόσθαι πρὸσ σφέων· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 35 2:1)

Derived

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

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