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παιδουργία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδουργία παιδουργίας

Structure: παιδουργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from paidourgo/s

Sense

  1. a mother

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παιδουργία παιδουργίᾱ παιδουργίαι
Genitive παιδουργίᾱς παιδουργίαιν παιδουργιῶν
Dative παιδουργίᾱͅ παιδουργίαιν παιδουργίαις
Accusative παιδουργίᾱν παιδουργίᾱ παιδουργίᾱς
Vocative παιδουργίᾱ παιδουργίᾱ παιδουργίαι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πύλασ δ’, ὅπωσ εἰσῆλθ’, ἐπιρράξασ’ ἔσω καλεῖ τὸν ἤδη Λάϊον πάλαι νεκρόν, μνήμην παλαιῶν σπερμάτων ἔχουσ’, ὑφ’ ὧν θάνοι μὲν αὐτόσ, τὴν δὲ τίκτουσαν λίποι τοῖσ οἷσιν αὐτοῦ δύστεκνον παιδουργίαν. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:6)
  • καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ δεῖ μὴ τῶν σωμάτων διακεχυμένων ὑπὸ μέθησ γίγνεσθαι τὴν παιδουργίαν, ἀλλ’ εὐπαγὲσ ἀπλανὲσ ἡσυχαῖόν τε ἐν μοίρᾳ συνίστασθαι τὸ φυόμενον. (Plato, Laws, book 6 171:2)

Synonyms

  1. a mother

Similar forms

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

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