Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τιθηνός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τιθηνός τιθηνόν

Structure: τιθην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Qa/w, with redupl.

Sense

  1. nursing

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • μὴ ἐγὼ ἐν γαστρὶ ἔλαβον πάντα τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον, ἢ ἐγὼ ἔτεκον αὐτούσ, ὅτι λέγεισ μοι, λάβε αὐτὸν εἰσ τὸν κόλπον σου, ὡσεὶ ἄραι τιθηνὸσ τὸν θηλάζοντα, εἰσ τὴν γῆν ἣν ὤμοσασ τοῖσ πατράσιν αὐτῶν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 11:12)
  • καὶ ἔλαβε Νωεμὶν τὸ παιδίον καὶ ἔθηκεν εἰσ τὸν κόλπον αὐτῆσ καὶ ἐγενήθη αὐτῷ εἰσ τιθηνόν. (Septuagint, Liber Ruth 4:16)
  • καὶ τῷ Ἰωνάθαν υἱῷ Σαοὺλ υἱὸσ πεπληγὼσ τοὺσ πόδασ. υἱὸσ ἐτῶν πέντε οὗτοσ ἐν τῷ ἐλθεῖν τὴν ἀγγελίαν Σαοὺλ καὶ Ἰωνάθαν τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐξ Ἰεζραήλ, καὶ ᾖρεν αὐτὸν ἡ τιθηνὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔφυγε, καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ σπεύδειν αὐτὸν καὶ ἀναχωρεῖν, καὶ ἔπεσε καὶ ἐχωλάνθη, καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῷ Μεμφιβοσθέ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 4:4)
  • Καὶ τῷ Αχααβ ἑβδομήκοντα υἱοὶ ἐν Σαμαρείᾳ. καὶ ἔγραψεν Ιου βιβλίον καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ἐν Σαμαρείᾳ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ Σαμαρείασ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ πρεσβυτέρουσ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ τιθηνοὺσ υἱῶν Αχααβ λέγων (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 10:1)
  • καὶ ἀπέστειλαν οἱ ἐπὶ τοῦ οἴκου καὶ οἱ ἐπὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι καὶ οἱ τιθηνοὶ πρὸσ Ιου λέγοντεσ Παῖδέσ σου ἡμεῖσ, καὶ ὅσα ἐὰν εἴπῃσ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ, ποιήσομεν. οὐ βασιλεύσομεν ἄνδρα, τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ σου ποιήσομεν. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 10:5)
  • τόνδε σὺ μὲν παίδων κρύφιον γόνον Ἄρεϊ τίκτεισ, Ῥῆμόν τε ξυνῶν καὶ Ῥωμύλον λεχέων, θὴρ δὲ λύκαιν’ ἄνδρωσεν ὑπὸ σπήλυγγι τιθηνόσ, οἵ σε δυσηκέστων ἡρ́πασαν ἐκ καμάτων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 3, chapter 194)

Synonyms

  1. nursing

Related

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

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