A). τίκτω,--οὐκ ἔστι μήτηρ ἡ κεκλημένου τέκνου τοκεύς, τροφὸς δὲ .. A. Eu. 658 ), child, ἄλοχοι καὶ νήπια τέκνα Il. 2.136 , al.; πατρὸς σωφροσύνη μέγιστον τέκνοις παράγγελμα Democr. 208 , cf. 222 ; τέκνα καὶ γυναῖκες Hdt. 1.164 , 2.30 , SIG 569.10 (Cos, iii B.C.), al., Plb. 2.58.9 , 9.39.3 ; γυναῖκες καὶ τ. Hdt. 6.19 , al., Plb. 5.78.1 (cf. 10.34.3 ), SIG 633.46 (Milet., ii B.C.), BGU 1811.5 (i B.C.), etc.: the sg. is used by Hom. only in voc., as a form of address from elders to their youngers, my son, my child, sts. with masc. Adj., φίλε τέκνον Il. 22.84 , Od. 2.363 , al.: the relat. Pron. or Participle sts. follows in masc. or fem., Pi. Fr. 171 , E. Supp. 12 sq., Tr. 740 :—the word is used in Prose at Cyrene, Berl.Sitzb. 1927.160 , and Epidaurus, IG 42(1).122.82 (iv B.C.), al., but is rarer than παῖς in Att. Prose, Lys. 2.74 , 11.10 , 12.96 , D. 11.9 , Din. 1.109 ; freq. in X., Lac. 1.8 , al., also Arist., Pol. 1253b7 , al., and later, PPetr. 3p.237 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen. 620.9 (iii B.C.), LXX Ge. 3.16 , al., PAmh. 2.35.55 (ii B.C.), Plb. (v. supr.); rare in Com. exc. in paratragoedic passages, Ar. Ach. 891 , al.; in Trag. it is generally used with espec. reference to the mother, ὦ τέκνον Νηρῇδος, ὦ παῖ Πηλέως E. IA 896 (troch.); Ἀγαμέμνονος παῖ (sic codd.) καὶ Κλυταιμήστρας τέκνον Id. IT 238 .

2). of animals,young, Od. 16.217 , Il. 2.311 , 12.170 , al., A. Th. 292 (lyr.), Hdt. 2.66 , 3.102 , 109 , X. Cyr. 4.1.17 , Arist. GA 753a8 , etc.

3). metaph., flowers are γαίας τέκνα A. Pers. 618 ; birds αἰθέρος τέκνα E. El. 897 ; frogs λιμναῖα κρηνῶν τ. Ar. Ra. 211 , etc. [The penult. is long in Hom.; it is occasionally long in Trag.(e.g. S. Ph. 249 , 260 , 875 , 914 ), but much more freq. short, as always in old Com., e.g. Ar. Lys. 7 , Th. 469 , al., except in mock Tragic passages, e.g. Ar. V. 1518 (lyr.); but sts. long in later Com., Antiph. 163.6 .]