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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

  • ἀλλὰ νῦν ὁρᾷσ οἱά πρόεισι, χρυσὸσ καὶ ἐσθῆτεσ εὐανθεῖσ καὶ θεράπαιναι τέτταρεσ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:13)
  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ δῶρα οὐ κατὰ μῆλα καὶ στεφάνουσ ἀντεδίδοτο αὐτῇ, ἀλλὰ συνοικίαι ὅλαι καὶ ἀγροὶ καὶ θεράπαιναι καὶ ἐσθῆτεσ εὐανθεῖσ καὶ χρυσὸν ὁπόσον ἐθελήσειε Καὶ τί γάρ ; (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 15:5)
  • παρὰ δὲ Τυρρηνοῖσ ἐκτόπωσ τρυφήσασιν ἱστορεῖ Τίμαιοσ ἐν τῇ α’ ὅτι αἱ θεράπαιναι γυμναὶ τοῖσ ἀνδράσι διακονοῦνται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 14 1:1)
  • τίσ γὰρ ὑμῶν οὐκ οἶδεν ὅτι περὶ τῶν ἀμφισβητουμένων πολὺ δοκεῖ δικαιότατον καὶ δημοτικώτατον εἶναι, ὅταν οἰκέται ἢ θεράπαιναι συνειδῶσιν ἃ δεῖ, τούτουσ ἐλέγχειν καὶ βασανίζειν, καὶ τοῖσ ἔργοισ μᾶλλον ἢ τοῖσ λόγοισ πιστεύειν, ἄλλωσ τε καὶ περὶ πραγμάτων κοινῶν καὶ μεγάλων καὶ συμφερόντων τῇ πόλει; (Lycurgus, Speeches, 43:3)
  • καίτοι, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, πολὺ θᾶττον οἱ Λεωκράτουσ οἰκέται καὶ θεράπαιναι τῶν γενομένων ἄν τι ἠρνήθησαν ἢ τὰ μὴ ὄντα τοῦ αὑτῶν δεσπότου κατεψεύσαντο. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 44:2)
  • γείτονεσ οἰκίασ θεράπαιναί τέ μου, ἀλλογενὴσ ἤμην ἐναντίον αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 19:15)

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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