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τιτθεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τιτθεία

Structure: τιτθει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from titqeu/w

Sense

  1. an acting as a nurse, nursing

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τιτθεία τιτθείᾱ τιτθεῖαι
Genitive τιτθείᾱς τιτθείαιν τιτθειῶν
Dative τιτθείᾱͅ τιτθείαιν τιτθείαις
Accusative τιτθείᾱν τιτθείᾱ τιτθείᾱς
Vocative τιτθείᾱ τιτθείᾱ τιτθεῖαι

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

  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα χρόνῳ ὕστερον παιδίων αὐτῇ δυοῖν ἤδη γεγενημένων, καὶ τοῦ μὲν πατρὸσ στρατευομένου καὶ ἀποδημοῦντοσ μετὰ Θρασυβούλου, αὐτὴ δ’ οὖσ’ ἐν ἀπορίαισ ἠναγκάσθη τὸν Κλεινίαν τὸν τοῦ Κλειδίκου τιτθεῦσαι, τῷ μὲν εἰσ ἔμ’ ἥκοντι κινδύνῳ νῦν μὰ τὸν Δι’ οὐχὶ συμφέρον πρᾶγμα ποιήσασα ἀπὸ γὰρ ταύτησ τῆσ τιτθείασ ἅπασ’ ἡ περὶ ἡμᾶσ γέγονεν βλασφημία, τῇ μέντοι ὑπαρχούσῃ πενίᾳ ἴσωσ καὶ ἀναγκαῖα καὶ ἁρμόττοντα ποιοῦσα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 59:1)

Synonyms

  1. an acting as 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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