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κουροτρόφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κουροτρόφος κουροτρόφον

Structure: κουροτροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/fw

Sense

  1. rearing boys;, nursing-mother

Examples

  • ἱκετεύων οὖν τὴν Ἀφροδίτην φησίν κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου, Κουροτρόφε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 61 1:1)
  • Κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου, κουροτρόφε, δὸσ δὲ γυναῖκα τήνδε νέων μὲν ἀναίνεσθαι φιλότητα καὶ εὐνήν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 155)

Synonyms

  1. rearing boys

Related

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

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