The corpus record

τέκος

tekos · τό

the young

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Where it lives

Heracles 6 · 7.67/10k
Trojan Women 5 · 7.06/10k
Phoenissae 6 · 6.22/10k
Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
Iliad 42 · 3.77/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Odyssey 15 · 1.73/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

τέκος · tekos — LSJ

poet. for τέκνον, 18.63, 24.36, al., Hes. Sc. 216, al.; as a term of endearment from elders to their youngers, φίλον τέκος Il. 9.437, 444, etc.: also in Alc. Supp. 10.7, Pi. I. 6(5).30, B. 6.13, al., A. Th. 203, 677, E. HF 439, Hec. 475 (mostly lyr.).

2 the young

of animals, Il. 8.248: esp. in pl. the young, 12.222, al., Ar. Pl. 292.

metaph., δυσσεβίας μὲν ὕβρις τέκος A. Eu. 534 (lyr.).

In the wild

τέκος · tekos Aeschylus, Eumenides 532–534
τέκος · tekos Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 203–207
τέκος · tekos Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 677–678
τέκος · tekos Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 348–349
τέκος · tekos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8640)
τέκος · tekos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5074)

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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.

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