θήλεια (theleia)

θήλεια is an Ancient Greek form of θῆλυς, meaning “female”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 15.145: Πραξινόα, τὸ χρῆμα σοφώτερον ἁ θήλεια.

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 56: … έντε τὴν ὑποτείνουσαν ἴσον ταῖς περιεχούσαις δυναμένην. εἰκαστέον οὖν τὴν μὲν πρὸς ὀρθὰς ἄρρενι, τὴν δὲ βάσιν θηλείᾳ, τὴν δʼ ὑποτείνουσαν ἀμφοῖν ἐκγόνῳ· καὶ τὸν μὲν Ὄσιριν ὡς ἀρχήν, τὴν δʼ Ἶσιν ὡς ὑποδοχήν, τὸν δʼ Ὧρον ὡς ἀποτ …

All forms of θῆλυς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.