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θηλυγενής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηλυγενής θηλυγενές

Structure: θηλυγενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. of female sex, womanish

Examples

  • αὐτίκα γᾶ πᾶσα χορεύσει‐‐ Βρόμιοσ ὅστισ ἄγῃ θιάσουσ‐‐ εἰσ ὄροσ εἰσ ὄροσ, ἔνθα μένει θηλυγενὴσ ὄχλοσ ἀφ’ ἱστῶν παρὰ κερκίδων τ’ οἰστρηθεὶσ Διονύσῳ. (Euripides, choral, strophe 24)
  • τὸ δὴ μεγαλοπρεπὲσ οὖν καὶ τὸ πρὸσ τὴν ἀνδρείαν ῥέπον ἀρρενωπὸν φατέον εἶναι, τὸ δὲ πρὸσ τὸ κόσμιον καὶ σῶφρον μᾶλλον ἀποκλῖνον θηλυγενέστερον ὡσ ὂν παραδοτέον ἔν τε τῷ νόμῳ καὶ λόγῳ. (Plato, Laws, book 7 91:4)

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

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