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τήθη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τήθη

Structure: τηθ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a grandmother

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τήθη τήθᾱ τῆθαι
Genitive τήθης τήθαιν τηθῶν
Dative τήθῃ τήθαιν τήθαις
Accusative τήθην τήθᾱ τήθᾱς
Vocative τήθη τήθᾱ τῆθαι

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

  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ τὰ καθ’ αὑτοὺσ ἐν πολλῇ ῥᾳθυμίᾳ καὶ ἀγνοίᾳ θέμενοι καὶ ἀμελήσαντεσ ἑτέρουσ γενεαλογοῦμεν ὅτι τοῦ γείτονοσ ὁ πάπποσ ἦν Σύροσ, Θρᾷττα δ’ ἡ τήθη, ὁ δεῖνα δ’ ὀφείλει τάλαντα τρία καὶ τοὺσ τόκουσ οὐκ ἀποδέδωκεν. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 2 2:2)
  • ἔτρεψεν αὑτόν, καὶ τὰσ ἄλλασ γυναῖκασ ἀνέκρινε, τίσ ἡ Τυρὼ καί τίσ ἡ καλὴ Χλωρὶσ καὶ διὰ τί Ἐπικάστη Ἐπικάστη ἁψαμένη βρόχον αἰπὺν ἀφ’ ὑψηλοῖο μελάθρου ἡμεῖσ δὲ τὰ καθ’ αὑτοὺσ ἐν πολλῇ ῥᾳθυμίᾳ καὶ ἀγνοίᾳ θέμενοι καὶ ἀμελήσαντεσ ἑτέρουσ γενεαλογοῦμεν, ὅτι τοῦ γείτονοσ ὁ πάπποσ ἦν Σύροσ, Θρᾷττα δ’ ἡ τήθη· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 2 5:1)
  • τὰ δὲ τήθη παραπλήσια τοῖσ προειρημένοισ καὶ πολυτροφώτερα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 354)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὁ τούτου πατὴρ Νικιάδησ ἀδελφιδοῦσ ἦν τῷ πάππῳ τῷ ἐμῷ καὶ τῇ τήθῃ, ἀνεψιὸσ δὲ τῷ πατρί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 26:4)

Synonyms

  1. a grandmother

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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