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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

  • οὐδ’ ἀύ̈πνοι κρῆναι μινύθουσιν Κηφισοῦ νομάδεσ ῥεέθρων, ἀλλ’ αἰὲν ἐπ’ ἤματι ὠκυτόκοσ πεδίων ἐπινίσσεται ἀκηράτῳ σὺν ὄμβρῳ στερνούχου χθονόσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 12)

Derived

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

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