The corpus record

τοκεύς

tokeus · ὁ

one who begets, father

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Where it lives

Eumenides 5 · 9.54/10k
Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
Theogony 4 · 5.81/10k
Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Works and Days 2 · 3.47/10k
Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
Against Lacritus 1 · 2.8/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
Funeral Oration 1 · 2.46/10k
Odyssey 18 · 2.07/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Iliad 20 · 1.79/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

τοκ-εύς · tok-eus — LSJ

one who begets, father, begetter, parents

one who begets, father, Hes. Th. 138, 155: generally, begetter, τέκνου τ. A. Eu. 659:—in Hom. and Hes. mostly in pl., parents, Od. 1.170, Hes. Op. 185, al. (in dual, τοκῆε δύω Od. 8.312); so in Trag., A. Pers. 580 (lyr.), al., E. Hec. 403, al. (not in S., exc. f.l. in El. 187 (lyr.)); also in Prose, Hdt. 1.122, 3.52, Th. 2.44, Lys. 2.75, X. Mem. 2.1.33, etc.; of animals, Nic. Th. 620, Al. 563.—Hom. and Hes. commonly have the Ep. forms τοκῆες, τοκῆας, τοκήων (Il. 15.663, al., more rarely τοκέων i

In the wild

τοκέων · tokeōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 727
τοκεῦσιν · tokeusin Aeschylus, Agamemnon 763–771
τοκεῦσιν · tokeusin Aeschylus, Eumenides 149–152
τοκεῦσιν · tokeusin Aeschylus, Eumenides 496–498
τοκέας · tokeas Aeschylus, Eumenides 269–272
τοκέων · tokeōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 545–549

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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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