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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

  • οἱ δ’ ἄρα μητρῴησ ἐρατῆσ ἀίοντεσ ἐφετμῆσ φοιτητῆρεσ Ἔρωτεσ ἐπερρώοντο τιθήνῃ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 152)
  • οὐ σακέων βασίλεια καὶ οὐ πυρόσ ἐσσι τιθήνη· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 197)
  • ἥδ’ ἀντὶ πολλῶν ἐστί μοι παραψυχή, πόλισ, τιθήνη, βάκτρον, ἡγεμὼν ὁδοῦ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:18)
  • Τιμοκλῆσ δ’ ἐν Ἥρωσιν ὡσ δ’ ἦν ἠρμένη βίου τιθήνη, πολεμία λιμοῦ, φύλαξ φιλίασ, ἰατρὸσ ἐκλύτου βουλιμίασ, τράπεζα Β. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 83 2:7)
  • , καθὸ τιθήνη καὶ πανδεχὴσ ὑπὸ τοῦ Πλάτωνοσ, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν πολλῶν μυριώνυμοσ κέκληται, διὰ τὸ πάσασ ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου τρεπομένη μορφὰσ δέχεσθαι καὶ ἰδέασ. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 533)

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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