Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, γόνιμος

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A.productive, fertile, fruitful, σπέρμα γ., opp. ἄγονον, Arist.HA523a25; “κύημα γ.” Id.GA736a35; ᾠὰ γ., opp. ὑπηνέμια, ib.730a6; of women, Id.Pr.876b12; of the male, Id.HA546a2, al.; ἐν τῇσι ἡλικίῃσι τῇσι γονίμῃσι εἶναι Hp.l.c.; γ. μέλεα a parent's limbs, E.El.1209 (lyr.); “γ. φλέψ” AP6.218 (Alc.); γ. μέρεα generative organs, Aret.SD2.5: hence (metaph.), “ἀπο τίκτειν γ. τε καὶ ἀληθές” Pl.Tht.150c; γ. ἢ ἀνεμιαῖον ib.151e; Νεῖλος γ., opp. πέλαγος, Lyr.Alex.Adesp.32.6, cf.Sammelb.2074 (Sup.). Adv. “-μως, σπέρμα ἐν τῇ μήτρᾳ γ. κρατηθῆναι” Porph.Gaur.2.2.

2. c. gen.rei, νέφος “γ. ὕδατος” Arist.Mu.394a27, cf. Thphr.Ign.44, Ael.NA7.5: metaph., “πηγαὶ τῆς ὑψηγορίας γονιμώταται” Longin.8.1.

3. metaph. of persons, ποιητὴς γ. poet of true genius, Ar.Ra.96; “γονιμωτέρα γενέσθω ἡ γλῶσσα” Luc.Rh.Pr.23.

b. born in lawful wedlock, Man.6.56: metaph., “ἀγαθὰ γ. τῇ αὑτῶν φύσει” Pl.R.367d; γ. ὕδωρ ποταμῶν, opp. νόθον, AP9.277 (Antiph.).

4. = βιώσιμος, viable, “παιδίον” Hp. Superf.4; “ἔμβρυον” Arist.HA583b31; “βρέφη” Ph.1.45.

5. favourable to generation, of uneven days, Pythagorean term, Plu.2.288c; of days in illness (because critical for life or death, Erot.s.v.), Hp. Epid.2.6.8, 2.5.12; γ. μήν, ἔτος, ib.6.10.

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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