πρωτοτόκ-ος
(paroxytone), Doric dialect πρᾱτοτόκος, ον, bearing or having borne her first-born, μήτηρ π., of a heifer, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.5; αἴξ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.27 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὗς, ταὧς, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 546a12, 564a30; κύων 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.70.6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of women, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 151c, 161a; νύμφη 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Lithica” 193. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II proparoxytone πρωτότοκος, ον, passive,first-born, [[ LXX.Gen.22.21, +others, NT.Luke.2.7, “PLips.” 28.15 (4th c.AD), 4th c.AD(?): Manetho Astrologus 3.9; τὰ π. τῶν προβάτων LXX.Gen.4.4, compare “PMag. Osl.” 1.312 ] LXX+NT+4th c.AD+]; π. ἐγὼ ἢ σύ [[ LXX.2Ki.19.43. ] LXX]
__II.2 metaphorically, π. πάσης κτίσεως [[ NT.Col.1.15 ] NT]; of Homer, opposed to Nicander, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.213. ] Refs]