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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

  • ἔστιν δ’ οἱο͂ν ἐγὼ γᾶσ Ἀσίασ οὐκ ἐπακούω οὐδ’ ἐν τᾷ μεγάλᾳ Δωρίδι νάσῳ Πέλοποσ πώποτε βλαστὸν φύτευμ’ ἀχείρωτον αὐτόποιον, ἐγχέων φόβημα δαί̈ων, ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ, γλαυκᾶσ παιδοτρόφου φύλλον ἐλαίασ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 22)
  • θεῶν δέ ἐστιν ἐνταῦθα Ἀρτέμιδόσ τε καλουμένησ Παιδοτρόφου καὶ Διονύσου καὶ Ἀσκληπιοῦ ναόσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 34 10:1)

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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