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τιθήνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τιθήνη

Structure: τιθην (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: Qa/w, with redupl.

Sense

  1. a nurse

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τιθήνη τιθήνᾱ τιθῆναι
Genitive τιθήνης τιθήναιν τιθηνῶν
Dative τιθήνῃ τιθήναιν τιθήναις
Accusative τιθήνην τιθήνᾱ τιθήνᾱς
Vocative τιθήνη τιθήνᾱ τιθῆναι

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

  • διόπερ ὀνομασθῆναι τὰσ Νύμφασ καὶ τιθήνασ τοῦ Διονύσου, ὅτι τὸν οἶνον αὐξάνει τὸ ὕδωρ κιρνάμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 13 2:3)
  • τῶν δὲ Θηβαίων οἱ μὲν ἔξω μεμενηκότεσ ἐν ἀριστερᾷ τὴν πόλιν λαβόντεσ ἐβάδιζον ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἐσχάτουσ τῶν πολεμίων ὑπὸ τὴν κρήνην τὴν Κισσοῦσαν προσαγορευομένην, ἔνθα μυθολογοῦσι τὰσ τιθήνασ νήπιον ἐκ τῆσ λοχείασ ἀπολοῦσαι τὸν Διόνυσον· (Plutarch, , chapter 28 4:1)
  • εἱρ͂πε γὰρ ἄλλοτ’ ἀλλαχᾷ τότ’ ἂν εἰλυόμενοσ παῖσ ἄτερ ὡσ φίλασ τιθήνασ ὅθεν εὐμάρει’ ὑπάρ‐ χοι πόρου, ἁνίκ’ ἐξανείη δακέθυμοσ ἄτα· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • ταὶ δ’ ἀμβρότῳ πόθῳ φίλασ ματρὸσ ῥώοντ’ αἶψα μεθ’ ἱμερόεντα μαζόν, πᾶσαι κραιπνοῖσ ὑπὲρ ἄκρων ἱέμεναι ποσὶ λόφων κατ’ ἀρθμίασ ἴχνοσ τιθῆνασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 27 2:1)
  • "ψόφοισ δὲ χρῶνται περὶ τὰ νυκτέλια, καὶ χαλκοκρότουσ τὰσ τοῦ θεοῦ τιθήνασ προσαγορεύουσι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 3:19)

Synonyms

  1. a nurse

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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