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θεράπαινα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεράπαινα

Structure: θεραπαιν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a waiting maid, handmaid

Declension

First declension

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

  • καὶ ἔσται ὁ λαὸσ ὡσ ὁ ἱερεὺσ καὶ ὁ παῖσ ὡσ ὁ κύριοσ καὶ ἡ θεράπαινα ὡσ ἡ κυρία. ἔσται ὁ ἀγοράζων ὡσ ὁ πωλῶν, ὁ δανείζων ὡσ ὁ δανειζόμενοσ καὶ ὁ ὀφείλων ὡσ ᾧ ὀφείλει. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 24:2)
  • καὶ σὴ θεράπαινα σύνοιδε Καλυψώ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 50:6)
  • ἡ δὲ Σύρα Σεμίραμισ οἰκότριβοσ μὲν ἦν βασιλικοῦ θεράπαινα παλλακευομένη· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 9 4:3)
  • ἀποροῦσι δ’ αὐτοῖσ θεράπαινα Φιλωτίσ, ὡσ δ’ ἔνιοι λέγουσι Τουτόλα καλουμένη, συνεβούλευσε μηδέτερα ποιεῖν, ἀλλὰ χρησαμένουσ δόλῳ διαφυγεῖν ἅμα τὸν πόλεμον καὶ τὴν ἐξομήρευσιν. (Plutarch, chapter 29 4:3)
  • οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἐν γένει σοι ἡ ἄνθρωποσ, οὐδὲ θεράπαινα, ἐξ ὧν σὺ λέγεισ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 90:2)
  • Ἐλευθέραν τινά, ὦ Τρίτων, λέγεισ, ἢ θεράπαινά τισ ὑδροφόροσ ἐστίν; (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 13)

Synonyms

  1. a waiting maid

Related

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

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