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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

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

  • γαμεῖ δὲ Κελεὸσ Φαιναρέτην τήθην ἐμήν, ἐξ ἧσ Λυκῖνοσ ἐγένε’· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 2:11)
  • μέμικται γὰρ κωμῳδικῶσ πρὸσ τὴν τήθην καὶ μητέρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 39 3:8)
  • ταύτῃ δὲ συνοικῶν βούλεται τὴν Ἐπιλύκου θυγατέρα λαβεῖν, ἵν’ ἐξελάσῃ τὴν τήθην ἡ θυγατριδῆ. (Andocides, Speeches, 207:1)
  • "τὴν δὲ Τίμωνοσ ἐν Κιλικίᾳ τήθην Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστόρηκε φωλεύειν τοῦ ἔτουσ ἑκάστου δύο μῆνασ, μηδενὶ πλὴν μόνῳ τῷ ἀναπνεῖν, ὅτι ζῇ, διάδηλον οὖσαν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 16:17)
  • παρθένον ἐν πελάγει ζητῶν τὴν πρόσθε λέοντα, τηθὴν εὑρήσεισ παιδοφόνου Ἑκάβησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 271)
  • ἄλλο οὕτω γῆρασ ἐμὸν μετὰ μητέρα καὶ μετὰ τηθὴν ξῦσεν Ιοὐλιανή, καὶ νέον ἄνθοσ ἔχω. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 141)

Synonyms

  1. a grandmother

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

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