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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
- IPA(key): /té.knon/ → /ˈte.knon/ → /ˈte.knon/
Noun
τέκνον • (téknon) n (genitive τέκνου); second declension
- child (of either gender)
- descendant
- young animal
Declension
Descendants
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.