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τίτθη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τίτθη

Structure: τιτθ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: Qa/w

Sense

  1. a nurse

Declension

First 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

  • τὴν μὲν δὴ πρώτην ἀνατροφὴν αὐτῶν μητράσι καὶ τίτθαισ καὶ παιδαγωγοῖσ ἐπιτρέπομεν ὑπὸ παιδείαισ ἐλευθερίοισ ἄγειν τε καὶ τρέφειν αὐτούσ, ἐπειδὰν δὲ συνετοὶ ἤδη γίγνωνται τῶν καλῶσ ἐχόντων, καὶ αἰδὼσ καὶ ἐρύθημα καὶ φόβοσ καὶ ἐπιθυμία τῶν ἀρίστων ἀναφύηται αὐτοῖσ, καὶ αὐτὰ ἤδη τὰ σώματα ἀξιόχρεα δοκῇ πρὸσ τοὺσ πόνουσ παγιώτερα γιγνόμενα καὶ πρὸσ τὸ ἰσχυρότερον συνιστάμενα, τηνικαῦτα ἤδη παραλαβόντεσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 20:7)
  • καὶ ὡσ Δημοκράτησ εἴκασεν τοὺσ ῥήτορασ ταῖσ τίτθαισ αἳ τὸ ψώμισμα καταπίνουσαι τῷ σιάλῳ τὰ παιδία παραλείφουσιν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 4 3:10)
  • ὥσπερ τὰ παιδία ταῖσ τίτθαισ μυθολογουμέναισ προσέχουσί τε καὶ ἥδονται. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 22:2)
  • μηχανώμενοι ὅπωσ μηδεμία τὸ αὑτῆσ αἰσθήσεται, καὶ ἄλλασ γάλα ἐχούσασ ἐκπορίζοντεσ, ἐὰν μὴ αὐταὶ ἱκαναὶ ὦσι, καὶ αὐτῶν τούτων ἐπιμελήσονται ὅπωσ μέτριον χρόνον θηλάσονται, ἀγρυπνίασ δὲ καὶ τὸν ἄλλον πόνον τίτθαισ τε καὶ τροφοῖσ παραδώσουσιν; (Plato, Republic, book 5 268:1)
  • Εὔβουλοσ Τιτθαῖσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 33 2:1)
  • Εὔβουλοσ Τιτθαῖσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 66 3:3)
  • ἐν δὲ Λημνίαισ, ου’ κρανίον λάβρακοσ, οὐχὶ κάραβον πρίασθαι, ὡσ διαφόρου ὄντοσ τοῦ τῶν λαβράκων ἐγκεφάλου καθάπερ καὶ τοῦ τῶν γλαύκων, καὶ Εὔβουλοσ δ’ ἐν Τιτθαῖσ φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 87 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a nurse

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

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