τέκνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *téknon, from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-, perhaps via τίκτω (tíktō, “I bear”). Cognates include Old English þegn (“servant”), Old High German degan and possibly Sanskrit तोक (toka, “offspring, child”).

Pronunciation

Noun

τέκνον • (téknon) n (genitive τέκνου); second declension

1. child (of either gender)
2. descendant
3. young animal

Declension

Related terms

• τίκτω (tíktō)

Descendants

• Greek: τέκνο (tékno)

Further reading

• “τέκνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τέκνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τέκνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τέκνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• τέκνον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τέκνον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5043 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • affirm idem, page 16.
  • babe idem, page 57.
  • child idem, page 129.
  • offspring idem, page 571.
  • progeny idem, page 653.
  • son idem, page 793.