συγγενής: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=συγ-γενής, ές [[γίγνομαι]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[born]] with, [[congenital]], [[natural]], in-[[born]], Pind., Aesch.; συγγενεῖς μῆνες the months of my [[natural]] [[life]], Soph.:—so in adv., συγγενῶς [[δύστηνος]] [[miserable]] from my [[birth]], Eur.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of the [[same]] kin, [[descent]] or [[family]] with [[another]], [[akin]] to him, τινι Hdt., [[attic]]:—absol. [[akin]], [[cognate]], Trag., etc.:—as Subst. a [[kinsman]], [[relative]], τινος of [[another]], Ar., Plat.:—in pl., οἱ συγγενεῖς [[kinsfolk]], kinsmen, Hdt., etc.:— τὸ συγγενές, = [[συγγένεια]], Aesch., etc.; εἰ [[τούτῳ]] προσήκει Λαΐῳ τι ς. if [[this]] man had any [[connection]] with [[Laius]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> metaph. [[akin]], [[cognate]], of like [[kind]], Ar., Plat.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> at the Persian [[court]], [[συγγενής]] was a [[title]] bestowed by the [[king]] as a [[mark]] of [[honour]] (like Cousin), Xen.