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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 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)
  • πρέσβυν ἆρ’ ἐσδέξομαι ἐμῶν φίλαισιν ὑποδοχαῖσ δόμων, πάτερ, πόνων τιθηνοὺσ ἀποδιδοῦσά σοι τροφάσ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 3:13)

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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