The corpus record

παιδο-γόνος

paidogonos

begetting children

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Where it lives

Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k

What it meant — LSJ

begetting children, father of a child by, giving birth to children, genitalia

begetting children, ἰὼ Ζεῦ . . παιδογόνε πόριος Ἰνάχου father of a child by the daughter of Inachus, E. Supp. 629 (lyr.); giving birth to children, Κύπρις AP 5.53 (Diosc.); φύσις (i.e. genitalia) Ps.-Phoc. 187.

II giving generative power, making fruitful, with aphrodisiac properties

giving generative power, making fruitful, φάλης Theoc. Ep. 4.4; π. ὕδωρ a spring with aphrodisiac properties, Thphr. HP 9.18.10.

In the wild

παιδογόνε · paidogone Euripides, Suppliants 2 (DIORISIS sentence 369)

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.

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