ἔκγονος

From ἐκγίγνομαι (ekgígnomai) +‎ -ος (-os).

ἔκγονος • (ékgonos) m (genitive ἐκγόνου); second declension (Epic, Ionic, Attic)

1. child
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.813:

     οὐ σύ γ’ ἔπειτα
     Τυδέος ἔκγονός ἐσσι δαΐφρονος Οἰνεΐδαο.

     ou sú g’ épeita
     Tudéos ékgonós essi daḯphronos Oineḯdao.

     So you aren't the son of Tydeus, son of warlike Oeneus

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.236:

     ἣ φάτο Σαλμωνῆος ἀμύμονος ἔκγονος εἶναι

     hḕ pháto Salmōnêos amúmonos ékgonos eînai

     she claimed to be the daughter of Salmoneus

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.35.4:

     ἀνδρῶν τε φίλων τυγχάνεις ἔκγονος ἐὼν καὶ ἐλήλυθας ἐς φίλους

     […] andrôn te phílōn tunkháneis ékgonos eṑn kaì elḗluthas es phílous

     You happen to be the offspring of men allied and have come to friends

2. (in the plural) offspring, descendants
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.167
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.179
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 450

• ἔκγονον (ékgonon)

• ἔκγονος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἔκγονος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press