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θηλυδρίας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηλυδρίας θηλυδρίου

Structure: θηλυδρι (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: qh=lus

Sense

  1. a womanish, effeminate person

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

  • τῶν δὲ ἀπὸ τῆσ Ῥωμαίων βουλῆσ τισ Ἀθήνησιν υἱὸν αὐτῷ δείξασ πάνυ ὡραῖον, θηλυδρίαν δὲ καὶ διακεκλασμένον, Προσαγορεύει σε, ἔφη, ὁ ἐμὸσ υἱὸσ οὑτοσί, καὶ ὁ Δημῶναξ, Καλόσ, ἔφη, καὶ σοῦ ἄξιοσ καὶ τῇ μητρὶ ὅμοιοσ. (Lucian, (no name) 18:1)
  • ἀνὴρ δὲ τίσ ὢν ὅλωσ,^ καὶ ταῦτα παιδείᾳ σύντροφοσ καὶ φιλοσοφίᾳ τὰ μέτρια ὡμιληκώσ, ἀφέμενοσ, ὦ Λυκῖνε, τοῦ περὶ τὰ βελτίω σπουδάζειν καὶ τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ συνεῖναι κάθηται καταυλούμενοσ, θηλυδρίαν ἄνθρωπον ὁρῶν ἐσθῆσι μαλακαῖσ καὶ ᾄσμασιν ἀκολάστοισ ἐναβρυνόμενον καὶ μιμούμενον ἐρωτικὰ γύναια, τῶν πάλαι τὰσ μαχλοτάτασ, Φαίδρασ καὶ Παρθενόπασ καὶ Ῥοδόπασ τινάσ, καὶ ταῦτα πάντα ὑπὸ κρούμασιν καὶ τερετίσμασι καὶ ποδῶν κτύπῳ, καταγέλαστα ὡσ ἀληθῶσ πράγματα καὶ ἥκιστα ἐλευθέρῳ ἀνδρὶ καὶ οἱῴ σοὶ πρέποντα ; (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 2:1)

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

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