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θῆσσα

Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θῆσσα

Etym.: From QE, Root of ti/qhmi, a settler.

Sense

  1. a poor girl, one obliged to go out for hire
  2. menial

Examples

  • ἀλλά ἑ θῆσσα γυνὴ τέκε· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 4:20)

Synonyms

  1. menial

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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