τέκν-ωσις · tekn-ōsis — LSJ
begetting, bearing
begetting, bearing, τέκνωσιν ποιεῖσθαι to have children, Th. 2.44; γίγνεται ἡ τ. τινός Agathocl. 2; τὴν τ. ποιεῖσθαι, of birds, Arist. HA 618a26.
II adoption
adoption, D.S. 4.39.
The corpus record
τέκν-ωσις
teknosis · ἡ
begetting, bearing
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Where it lives
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- τέκνωσιν · teknōsin Thucydides, History 2.44.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1251)
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.