γονή

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γονᾱ́ (gonā́) — Doric, Lyric

Etymology

From γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be born”) +‎ -η (-ē).

Pronunciation

Noun

γονή • (gonḗ) f (genitive γονῆς); first declension

1. offspring
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.539
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.755
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1136
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1192
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 641
   1. (of animals)
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 194
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 941.10
   2. (of the fruits of the earth)
      • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Plato, Axiochus 371c
   3. race, stock, family; parentage
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1565
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1469
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 156
      • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 1290
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1094
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 328
   4. generation
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.143
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 774
      • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 818
2. that which engenders, seed
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 733
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.101
     • Herodotus, Histories 3.109
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Generation 3
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 1.18
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.84
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 950
   1. organs of generation (genitalia)
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 45
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On the Instruments of Reduction 1
      1. womb
         • Ruf., Onom. 193
         • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 2.889
         • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1597
3. act of generation
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 7.7
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 3.111
   1. (of the mother) childbirth
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 355
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 17.44
   2. (of the child) birth
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 4.31
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1294
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Universe 399a28
   3. cure for sterility
      • Paul., Aeg. 3.74
4. (Pythagorean nomenclature) unity
   • Theol., Ar. 6

Declension

Derived terms

• βουγονής (bougonḗs)
• βουγονή (bougonḗ)
• βουγονῐ́ᾱ (bougoníā)

Further reading

• “γονή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γονή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “γονή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• γονή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γονή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• γονή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • age idem, page 18.
  • birth idem, page 79.
  • child idem, page 129.
  • childbed idem, page 129.
  • descendant idem, page 214.
  • family idem, page 305.
  • generation idem, page 356.
  • labour idem, page 472.
  • lineage idem, page 493.
  • offspring idem, page 571.
  • origin idem, page 579.
  • parentage idem, page 592.
  • progeny idem, page 653.
  • race idem, page 667.
  • seed idem, page 749.
  • son idem, page 793.
  • travail idem, page 890.
  • young idem, page 997.