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

  • τὸ δὲ δὴ ἐμόν τε καὶ τῆσ ἐμῆσ τέχνησ τῆσ μαιευτικῆσ σιγῶ ὅσον γέλωτα ὀφλισκάνομεν, οἶμαι δὲ καὶ σύμπασα ἡ τοῦ διαλέγεσθαι πραγματεία. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 121:2)
  • καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ἐπισκεψόμεθα, τόδε δὲ ἴσμεν, ὅτι βουκόλῳ γε οὐδεὶσ ἀμφισβητήσει περὶ τούτων οὐδενόσ, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ τῆσ ἀγέλησ τροφὸσ ὁ βουφορβόσ, αὐτὸσ ἰατρόσ, αὐτὸσ οἱο͂ν νυμφευτὴσ καὶ περὶ τοὺσ τῶν γιγνομένων τόκουσ καὶ λοχείασ μόνοσ ἐπιστήμων τῆσ μαιευτικῆσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 67:3)

Related

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

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