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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θηλή θηλᾱ́ θηλαί
Genitive θηλῆς θηλαῖν θηλῶν
Dative θηλῇ θηλαῖν θηλαῖς
Accusative θηλήν θηλᾱ́ θηλᾱ́ς
Vocative θηλή θηλᾱ́ θηλαί

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

  • νηδὺσ δὲ τριτοκεῖ ἀνὰ πᾶν ἔτοσ, ἐκ δὲ γάλακτοσ θηλὴ ἀεὶ μαστοῦ πλήθεται οὐθατίου· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 430 1:1)
  • ἡ δὲ "θηλὴ" ἆρά γε, ὦ Ἑρμόγενεσ, ὅτι τεθηλέναι ποιεῖ ὥσπερ τὰ ἀρδόμενα; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 186:5)
  • καὶ τὸ παιδίον ἀσμενίσαν πωσ προσφύεται τῇ θηλῇ, καὶ δεηθείσησ γε τῆσ βασιλίδοσ πιστεύεται τὴν τροφὴν τοῦ παιδίου πρὸσ τὸ πᾶν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 281:3)

Synonyms

  1. the part of the breast which gives suck

Similar forms

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

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