γένεθλον · genethlon — LSJ
race, descent
= γενέθλη, race, descent, A. Supp. 290.
2 offspring, sons
offspring, Id. Ag. 784 (lyr.), 914, etc.; γ. Οἰταίου πατρός S. Ph. 453; τὰ θνητῶν γ. the sons of men, Id. OT 1425.
The corpus record
γένεθλον
genethlon · τό
race, descent
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Where it lives
- Iphigenia in Aulis 3 · 3.36/10k
- Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
- Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- γένεθλον · genethlon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 782–784
- γένεθλον · genethlon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 914–915
- γένεθλʼ · genethlʼ Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 258–259
- γένεθλον · genethlon Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 289–290
- γένεθλα · genethla Euripides, Bacchae (DIORISIS sentence 625)
- γένεθλον · genethlon Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 685 (DIORISIS sentence 381)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.