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μαίωτρα

Irregular declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαίωτρα μαίωτρων

Etym.: maio/omai

Sense

  1. a midwife's wages

Examples

  • ὥστε, ὦ Ζεῦ, μαίωτρά μοι ἀπόδοσ ἐγγυήσασ ἤδη αὐτήν. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a midwife's wages

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

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