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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

  • τροφὸσ γὰρ αὐτοῦ καὶ τίτθη ἡ Ἰνώ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, poseidon and nereides, chapter 1 2:3)
  • 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)
  • τίτθη νὴ Δί’ ἐμή. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode31)
  • μίσθωσόν μοι τὴν τίτθην. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, lyric5)
  • πρῶτοι γὰρ οὗτοι παραλαμβάνοντεσ ἐκ γάλακτοσ, ὥσπερ αἱ τίτθαι ταῖσ χερσὶ τὸ σῶμα πλάττουσιν, οὕτω τὸ ἦθοσ ῥυθμίζουσι τοῖσ ἔθεσιν, εἰσ ἴχνοσ τι πρῶτον ἀρετῆσ καθιστάντεσ. (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 2 3:1)
  • "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)
  • Ἄλεξισ δ’ ἐν Τιτθῇ ἔτι σωφρονικώτερον κιρνάναι παρακελεύεται · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 28 1:4)

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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