Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μαιευτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαιευτικός μαιευτική μαιευτικόν

Structure: μαιευτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for midwifery, obstetric, midwifery, - , art of eliciting from others what was in their minds

Examples

  • προσφέρου οὖν πρόσ με ὡσ πρὸσ μαίασ ὑὸν καὶ αὐτὸν μαιευτικόν, καὶ ἃ ἂν ἐρωτῶ προθυμοῦ ὅπωσ οἱο͂́σ τ’ εἶ οὕτωσ ἀποκρίνασθαι· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 58:6)

Related

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

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