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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

  • τίνασ ἂν εἴποι λόγουσ ὁ Πηλεὺσ ἀκούων ὅτι ἀπόμαχόσ ἐστιν Ἀχιλλεύσ Πηλιάδεσ σκοπιαί, κουροτρόφοι, εἴπατε παιδί, ὃν Χείρων ἐδίδαξεν ἀριστεύειν ἐνὶ χάρμῃ, μῆνιν ἀπορρῖψαι καὶ λοίγιον ἔχθοσ Ἀχαιοῖσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4671)

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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