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τιθηνέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τιθηνέομαι

Structure: τιθηνέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: Mid.

Sense

  1. to nurse, suckle, tend as nurse
  2. to keep up, maintain

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • ἡ γὰρ ὑδατώδησ καὶ διάβροχοσ γῆ μάλιστα τὰσ σβεννυούσασ καὶ χαλώσασ τὴν ξηρότητα καὶ τὸν αὐχμὸν ἀναθυμιάσεισ τιθηνεῖται. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 38 4:1)
  • "ὥσπερ ἡ τραγικὴ τροφὸσ ἐκείνη τὰ τῆσ Νιόβησ τέκνα τιθηνεῖται λεπτοσπαθήτων χλανιδίων ἐρειπίοισ θάλπουσα καὶ ψύχουσα. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. to nurse

  2. to keep up

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

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