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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

  • καὶ λέγειν ἐκέλευσεν ἣν ἔχει γνώμην ἕκαστοσ, ἦν οὖν δεινὸν περὶ Πομπηϊού Μάγνου βουλεύεσθαι Ποθεινὸν τὸν εὐνοῦχον καὶ Θεόδοτον τὸν Χῖον, ἐπὶ μισθῷ ῥητορικῶν λόγων διδάσκαλον ἀνειλημμένον, καὶ τὸν Αἰγύπτιον Ἀχιλλᾶν κορυφαιότατοι γὰρ ἦσαν ἐν κατευνασταῖσ καὶ τιθηνοῖσ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ οὗτοι σύμβουλοι. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 77 2:3)

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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