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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

  • οὔκ, ἀλλὰ ἐλογιζόμην ὡσ τηλικαύτη γενομένη θρέψεισ μὲν ἐμέ, σεαυτὴν δὲ κατακοσμήσεισ ῥᾳδίωσ καὶ πλουτήσεισ καὶ ἐσθῆτασ ἕξεισ ἁλουργεῖσ καὶ θεραπαίνασ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:2)
  • καὶ μὴν ἀδυν[άτο]υ γε εἶχεν τάξιν τὸ τὰσ θεραπαίνασ αὐτῆσ πρὸσ τοῦτον διαφέρεσθαι. (Hyperides, Speeches, 1:4)
  • ’καὶ βιβλία τά τε Φιλαινίδοσ καὶ τὴν τοῦ Ἀρχεστράτου Γαστρονομίαν καὶ δυνάμεισ ἐρωτικὰσ καὶ συνουσιαστικάσ, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τὰσ θεραπαίνασ ἐμπείρουσ τοιῶνδε κινήσεών τε καὶ σχημάτων καὶ περὶ τὴν τούτων μελέτην γινομένασ καὶ πάλιν ’ἐκμανθάνειν τ’ αὐτοὺσ τὰ τοιαῦτα καὶ κτᾶσθαι τὰ περὶ τούτων γεγραμμένα Φιλαινίδι καὶ Ἀρχεστράτῳ καὶ τοῖσ τὰ ὅμοια γράψασιν κἀν τῷ ἑβδόμῳ δέ φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 13 2:4)
  • εἰ δὲ μή φησι ταῦτα ἀληθῆ εἶναι, τί οὐ παραδέδωκε τοὺσ οἰκέτασ καὶ τὰσ θεραπαίνασ; (Lycurgus, Speeches, 48:2)
  • Τίμαιοσ δ’ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τῶν ἱστοριῶν καὶ τὰσ θεραπαίνασ φησὶ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ μέχρι οὗ ἂν αὐξηθῶσι γυμνὰσ διακονεῖσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 38 4:1)

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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