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θηλῠκός

thelukos

woman-like

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What it meant

θηλῠκός · thēlykos — LSJ

woman-like, like the female

woman-like, ἄνδρες Arist. GA 747a1; like the female, of male animals, Id. HA 589b30: Comp., Id. Pr. 961a6.

b womanish, ultra-feminine

of women, womanish, ultra-feminine, opp. ἀρρενωπός, Id. GA 728a3.

2 feminine

Gramm., feminine, γένος D.T. 634.17, D.H. Amm. 2.11; μόριον ibid.; ὄνομα Ph. 1.294. Adv. -κῶς Arist. Fr. 499, Phld. Piet. 12, Str. 6.1.10, A.D. Synt. 222.6, Alex.Aphr. in Sens. 151.1.

3 female

= θῆλυς, female, PCair.Zen. 166.2 (iii B.C.), LXX Nu. 5.3, IG 14.872 (Cumae), Sor. 1.32.

b of female

θ. κεντήματα bites of female vipers, Philum. Ven. 16.3.

c

Astrol., applied to certain planets or figures of the Zodiac, Ptol. Tetr. 20, 33.

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