The corpus record

τεκνοῦς

teknous

having children

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Where it lives

Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k

What it meant

τεκνοῦς · teknous — LSJ

having children

having children, ἄνανδρος ἢ τεκνοῦσσα (Brunck for τεκνοῦσα or τεκοῦσα) S. Tr. 308 (v. παιδοῦς) ; οἶνον, ὃς . . τὰς γυναῖκας τεκνούσσας ποιεῖ Thphr. HP 9.18.10, as cited by Ath. 1.31f (τεκνούσας codd. Ath., ἀτέκνους codd. Thphr.); αἱ τεκνοῦσαι, opp. αἱ ἀειπάρθενοι, D.C. 56.10 codd.

In the wild

τεκνοῦσσα · teknoussa Sophocles, Trachiniae 308

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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