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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

  • εὔχεσθε τοῖν Θεσμοφόροιν τῇ Δήμητρι καὶ τῇ Κόρῃ καὶ τῷ Πλούτῳ καὶ τῇ Καλλιγενείᾳ καὶ τῇ Κουροτρόφῳ τῇ Γῇ καὶ τῷ Ἑρμῇ καὶ Χάρισιν ἐκκλησίαν τήνδε καὶ σύνοδον τὴν νῦν κάλλιστα καὶ ἄριστα ποιῆσαι, πολυωφελῶσ μὲν πόλει τῇ Ἀθηναίων τυχηρῶσ δ’ ἡμῖν αὐταῖσ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parodos, prologue2)
  • πρῶτα μὲν ἐμοὶ γὰρ κουροτρόφῳ προθύεται πλακοῦσ ἐνόρχησ, ἄμυλοσ ἐγκύμων, κίχλαι ἑκκαίδεχ’ ὁλόκληροι μέλιτι διαμεμιγμέναι, λαγῷα δώδεκ’ ἐπισέληνα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 58 1:1)
  • Κύπριδι κουροτρόφῳ δάμαλιν ῥέξαντεσ ἔφηβοι χαίροντεσ νύμφασ ἐκ θαλάμων ἄγομεν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3181)

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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