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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

  • περιπτύξασθε τιθήνην. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 142)
  • Ἥρην μὲν Χαρίτων ἱερὴν ἐνέπουσι τιθήνην, φασὶ δὲ κοιρανίην μεθέπειν καὶ σκῆπτρα φυλάσσειν· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 145)
  • ἡ δ’ ἀνόρουσε καὶ οὐχ ὁρόωσα τιθήνην ὀξυτέρῃ πολὺ μᾶλλον ἀνεβρυχήσατο φωνῇ· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1196)
  • ἀλλὰ μετὰ πολλῶν ἄλλων καὶ Εὔδημοσ ἀγνοήσασ κατειρωνεύεται τοῦ Πλάτωνοσ, ὡσ οὐκ εὖ τὴν πολλάκισ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ μητέρα καὶ τιθήνην προσαγορευομένην αἰτίαν κακῶν καὶ ἀρχὴν ἀποφαίνοντοσ. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 7 2:1)
  • οἱ δὲ σωματικὴν ἀξιοῦντεσ ὕλην συμμίγνυσθαι τῇ ἀμερίστῳ διαμαρτάνουσι πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι τῶν ἐκείνησ ὀνομάτων οὐδενὶ νῦν ὁ Πλάτων κέχρηται δεξαμενὴν γὰρ εἰώθε καὶ πανδεχῆ καὶ τιθήνην ἀεὶ καλεῖν ἐκείνην, οὐ περὶ τὰ σώματα μεριστήν, μᾶλλον δὲ σῶμα μεριζόμενον εἰσ τὸ καθ’ ἕκαστον. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 21 4:2)

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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