Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

γυναικεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γυναικεῖος γυναικεῖα γυναικεῖον

Structure: γυναικει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gunh/

Sense

  1. of or belonging to women, like women, befitting them, feminine, bona dea, with women
  2. womanish, effeminate
  3. the women's apartments, harem

Examples

  • ὦ γυναικείαισ τέχναισιν αἱρεθεὶσ ἐγὼ τάλασ· (Euripides, Helen, episode, trochees1)
  • "ἀπὸ τῶν ὀμφαλῶν τῶν ἐν ταῖσ γυναικείαισ πυέλοισ, ὅθεν τοῖσ σκαφίοισ ἀρύουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 104 1:6)
  • φασὶ δέ τινεσ καὶ ἀσώτωσ αὐτὸν βιῶναι, γυναικείαισ τ’ ἐσθῆσι χρώμενον καὶ κωμάζοντα ἑκάστοτε, ὅθεν Βάταλον ἐπικληθῆναι· (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 65:2)
  • ἐτύγχανον δ’ οἱ πολλοὶ διὰ τὴν παννυχίδα καὶ τὸν πότον ἐν ἐσθῆσιν ἀνθιναῖσ καὶ γυναικείαισ ὄντεσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 55 2:3)
  • ἐτύγχανον δ’ οἱ πολλοὶ διὰ τὴν παννυχίδα καὶ τὸν πότον ἐν ἐσθῆσιν ἀνθιναῖσ καὶ γυναικείαισ ὄντεσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 55 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. womanish

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION