production of animals, of living things, breeding of worms, generation
production of animals, Pl. Epin. 980c, Ph. 1.14; of living things, Dam. Pr. 284; breeding of worms, Thphr. CP 5.9.3; generation, Sor. 1.2.
The corpus record
ζωογον-ία
zoogonia · ἡ
production of animals
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Where it lives
- Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ζωογονίας · zōogonias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4315)
- ζῳογονίαν · zōiogonian Plato, Epinomis 980
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.