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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τίτθη τίτθᾱ τίτθαι
Genitive τίτθης τίτθαιν τιτθῶν
Dative τίτθῃ τίτθαιν τίτθαις
Accusative τίτθην τίτθᾱ τίτθᾱς
Vocative τίτθη τίτθᾱ τίτθαι

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

  • τροφὸσ γὰρ αὐτοῦ καὶ τίτθη ἡ Ἰνώ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, poseidon and nereides, chapter 1 2:3)
  • τίτθη νὴ Δί’ ἐμή. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode31)
  • "εἰ δ’ ἄρχει βρέφουσ μὲν ἡ τίτθη καὶ παιδὸσ ὁ διδάσκαλοσ ἐφήβου δὲ γυμνασίαρχοσ ἐραστὴσ δὲ μειρακίου γενομένου δ’ ἐν ἡλικίᾳ νόμοσ καὶ στρατηγὸσ οὐδεὶσ δ’ ἄναρκτοσ οὐδ’ αὐτοτελήσ, τί δεινὸν εἰ γυνὴ νοῦν ἔχουσα πρεσβυτέρα κυβερνήσει νέου βίον ἀνδρόσ, ὠφέλιμοσ μὲν οὖσα τῷ φρονεῖν μᾶλλον ἡδεῖα δὲ τῷ φιλεῖν καὶ προσηνήσ; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 9 18:4)
  • ἐν δὲ Τίτθῃ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 39 1:6)
  • ἀσόφου καὶ τετυφωμένησ ψυχῆσ τὴν μὲν αὐτόχρουν χλαμύδα θαυμάζειν, τὸν δὲ περιπόρφυρον χιτῶνα δυσχεραίνειν ἢ πάλιν ἐκεῖνα μὲν ἀτιμάζειν, τούτοισ δ’ ἐκπεπλῆχθαι, δίκην νηπίου παιδὸσ φυλάττοντα τὴν περιβολήν, ἣν ἡ πάτριοσ αὐτῷ συνήθεια καθάπερ τίτθη περιέθηκε. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 8 4:1)
  • Ἄλεξισ δ’ ἐν Τιτθῇ ἔτι σωφρονικώτερον κιρνάναι παρακελεύεται · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 28 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. 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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