θήλειαν (theleian)

θήλειαν is an Ancient Greek form of θῆλυς, meaning “female”. It is the genitive plural feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of θάλλω, “bloom, flourish”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active optative.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.6.35: … ὲ ἀπεκρίνετο. πρὸς δὲ τὸν δανειστικὸν καὶ φιλόλογον εἰπόντα τι ἀγνοεῖν, ἔφη· λήθουσι γάρ τοι κἀνέμων διέξοδοι θήλειαν ὄρνιν, πλὴν ὅταν τόκος παρῇ. ἔστι δὲ ταῦτα ἐκ τοῦ Οἰνομάου τοῦ Σοφοκλέους.

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume II 7.15.2: θηλειᾶν, ἀνδρῶν ὅσσον ὁ Μαιονίδας.

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.