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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

  • πρὸσ τῆσ κουροτρόφου τί τὸ πρᾶγμα, ἢ τί βούλεται ἡ γυνή; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:7)
  • διδόναι δὲ καὶ γάλα, μάλιστα μὲν γυναικὸσ νεοτόκου καὶ κουροτρόφου. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 184)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ Γῆσ Κουροτρόφου καὶ Δήμητροσ ἱερὸν Χλόησ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 5:3)

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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