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παιδοτρόφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδοτρόφος παιδοτρόφον

Structure: παιδοτροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/fw

Sense

  1. rearing boys
  2. a mother

Examples

  • αἰαῖ δῆτα τὸν γεραιὸν ὡσ στένω πατέρα τάν τε παιδοτρόφον, <ᾇ> μάταν τέκεα γεννᾶται. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric1)
  • διὸ καὶ γονέων κακὴν γηροτρόφον οὖσαν καὶ κακίονα παιδοτρόφον τέκνων ἐκκαθαίρειν προσήκει τὴν μισαδελφίαν. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 71)
  • διὸ καὶ γονέων κακὴν γηροτρόφον οὖσαν καὶ κακίονα παιδοτρόφον τέκνων ἐκκαθαίρειν προσήκει τὴν μισαδελφίαν. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 71)

Synonyms

  1. rearing boys

  2. a mother

Related

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

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