θήλεος (theleos)

θήλεος is an Ancient Greek form of θῆλυς, meaning “female”. It is the genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 2: … γαμήλιος ἡ πεντάς ἐστι· τὰ γὰρ τρία πρῶτος περιττὸς καὶ τὰ δύο πρῶτος ἄρτιος· ἐκ δὲ τούτων ὥσπερ ἄρρενος καὶ θήλεος ἡ πεντὰς μέμικται. ἢ μᾶλλον, ἐπεὶ τὸ φῶς γενέσεώς ἐστι σημεῖον, γυνὴ δʼ ἄχρι πέντε τίκτειν ὁμοῦ τὰ πλεῖστα πέ …

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.