The corpus record

μαι-ευτικός

maieutikos

skilled in midwifery

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Where it lives

Theaetetus 4 · 1.78/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8 · 0.75/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k

What it meant — LSJ

skilled in midwifery, of delivery

skilled in midwifery, Pl. Tht. 151c; ἡ μαιευτικὴ τέχνη or ἡ -κή alone, art of delivery, Id. Plt. 268b; esp. metaph. of the Socratic method of eliciting from others what was in their minds without their knowing it, Id. Tht. 161e, D.L. 3.49 sq.; οἱ μ. διάλογοι of Plato, such as Alc. 1, La., Ly., Thrasyll. ib. 59. Adv. -κῶς Poll. 4.208.

In the wild

μαιευτικοῦ · maieutikou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2582)
μαιευτικός · maieutikos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2576)
μαιευτικός · maieutikos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2650)
μαιευτικός · maieutikos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2651)
μαιευτικός · maieutikos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2645)
μαιευτικός · maieutikos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2648)

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