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τιθήνη?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: tithēnē

Principal Part: τιθήνη

Structure: τιθην (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: Θάω, with redupl.

Sense

  1. a nurse

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τιθήνη τιθήνα τιθῆναι
Genitive τιθήνης τιθήναιν τιθηνῶν
Dative τιθήνῃ τιθήναιν τιθήναις
Accusative τιθήνην τιθήνα τιθήνας
Vocative τιθήνη τιθήνα 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)
  • 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)
  • ἡ δ ἀνόρουσε καὶ οὐχ ὁρόωσα τιθήνην ὀξυτέρῃ πολὺ μᾶλλον ἀνεβρυχήσατο φωνῇ: (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1196)
  • 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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