The corpus record

θηλύνω

theluno

make womanish, enervate

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Where it lives

Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

make womanish, enervate, soften, become soft, gavʼst, a sign of yielding, play the coquette, muliebria pati

make womanish, enervate, E. l.c.; τὴν ἡδονήν Plu. l.c.; τοὺς ἄνδρας Vett.Val. 76.6; soften, Ζέφυρος κῦμα θηλύνει AP 10.4 (Marc.Arg.):— Pass., τῶν σωμάτων -ομένων X. Oec. 4.2, cf. Porph. Abst. 1.34; become soft, αἱ σάρκες -ονται Hp. Art. 52; βαφῇ σίδηρος ὥς, ἐθηλύνθην στόμα S. Aj. 651; οὔπω ἐθηλύνθης gavʼst not yet a sign of yielding, AP 5.250 (Iren.); θ. οἴκτοις ib. 299 (Paul.Sil.); play the coquette, Bion 2.18; τᾷ μορφᾷ θηλύνετο Theoc. 20.14; muliebria pati, Vett.Val. 7.26, al.: Astrol., of pla

In the wild

θηλυνόμενον · thēlynomenon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5164)
θηλύνει · thēlynei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5542)
θηλύνεται · thēlynetai Plotinus, Enneads 2.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1008)
ἐθηλύνθην · ethēlynthēn Sophocles, Ajax 650–651
θηλυνομένων · thēlynomenōn Xenophon, Economics 4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 185)

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