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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

  • Κρατιστώνακτι, ὃσ παρ’ Ἡρακλεῖ ᾤκει, καὶ Σκύμνου τοῦ γναφέωσ θεραπαίνῃ ἐξεπύησεν‧ ἀπέθανον‧ οἷσι δ’ ἔκρινεν ἑβδομαίοισι, διέλειπεν ἐννέα, ὑπέστρεφεν, ἔκρινεν ἐκ τῆσ ὑποστροφῆσ τεταρταίοισι ‐‐ Παντακλεῖ, ὃσ ᾤκει παρὰ Διονύσιον ‐‐. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 184)

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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