τέκνον, τό,
(τίκτω,--οὐκ ἔστι μήτηρ ἡ κεκλημένου τέκνου τοκεύς, τροφὸς δὲ.. [
Refs 4th c.BC+],
child, ἄλοχοι καὶ νήπια τέκνα [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; γυναῖκες καὶ τ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.: the
singular is used by [
Refs 8th c.BC+] only in
vocative, as a form of address from elders to their youngers,
my son, my child, sometimes with
masculine adjective, φίλε τέκνον [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: the
relative pronoun or Participle sometimes follows in
masculine or
feminine, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—the word is used in Prose at Cyrene, [
Refs 4th c.BC+] in
Attic dialect Prose, [
LXX+5th c.BC+]; rare in Comedy texts except in paratragoedic passages, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Trag. it is generally used with especially reference to the mother, ὦ τέκνον Νηρῇδος, ὦ παῖ Πηλέως [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἀγαμέμνονος παῖ (sic codices) καὶ Κλυταιμήστρας τέκνον [
Refs]
2 of animals,
young, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
3 metaphorically, flowers are γαίας τέκνα [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; frogs λιμναῖα κρηνῶν τ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+] [The
penultimate is long in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; it is occasionally long in Trag.(e.g. [
Refs 5th c.BC+], but much more frequently short, as always in old Comedy texts, e.g.[
Refs 5th c.BC+], except in mock Tragic passages, e.g.[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; but sometimes long in later Comedy texts, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
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