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θηλή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηλή

Structure: θηλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: Qa/w

Sense

  1. the part of the breast which gives suck, the teat, nipple

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

  • "Ἕκτωρ γὰρ θνητόσ τε γυναῖκά τε θήσατο μαζόν, διὰ τὸ ἐντίθεσθαι τὰσ θηλὰσ εἰσ τὰ στόματα τὰ βρέφη, καὶ ὁ τιτθὸσ ἐνθένδε διὰ τὸ ἐντίθεσθαι τὰσ θηλάσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 54 1:20)
  • εἶναι γὰρ καὶ ἐν τῇ μήτρᾳ θηλάσ τινασ καὶ στόματα, δι’ ὧν τρέφεται. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 2)
  • τὰ μὲν δὴ κνυζούμενα κατὰ τοῦ τέλματοσ ἐκυλινδεῖτο, λύκαινα δέ τισ ἐπιφανεῖσα νεοτόκοσ σπαργῶσα τοὺσ μαστοὺσ ὑπὸ γάλακτοσ ἀνεδίδου τὰσ θηλὰσ τοῖσ στόμασιν αὐτῶν καὶ τῇ γλώττῃ τὸν πηλόν, ᾧ κατάπλεοι ἦσαν, ἀπελίχμα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 79 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. the part of the breast which gives suck

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

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