πρωτό-γονος, ον,
also η, ον [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.31.4 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— first-born, firstling, ἄρνες, ἔριφοι, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.102, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 543 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φοῖνιξ π. first-born, first-created, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 458 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ π. [[ LXX.Mic.7.1 ] LXX]; of the tissues,= ὁμοιομερῆ, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 4.773 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a child, π. θάλος [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 209 (Lyric poetry); π. τῶν τέκνων “IGRom.” 4.539 (from Cotiaeum)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. λόγος, υἱός, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.427, 308; ὄρχησις 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 7 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of the τριάς (= [[ 1 + 2), 4th c.AD: Adamantius Physiognomonicus “Vent.” 46. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__2 of rank, π. οἶκοι high-born houses (εὐγενεῖς, [[ Scholia), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 180 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 epithet of gods, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 123 bis] Refs 5th c.AD+]; so Πρωτογόνη, ἡ, name of Persephone, [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta [prev. cited] ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II paroxytone πρωτογόνος, ἡ, bringing forth first, implied by [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.208. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]