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τίτθη?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: titthē

Principal Part: τίτθη

Structure: τιτθ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: Θάω

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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