θῆλυ (thely)

θῆλυ is an Ancient Greek form of θῆλυς, meaning “female”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 108 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.16: Εὔμαιε, τὸ σοφόν ἐστιν οὐ καθʼ ἓν μόνον, ἀλλʼ ὅσσα περ ζῇ, πάντα καὶ γνώμαν ἔχει. καὶ γὰρ τὸ θῆλυ τᾶν ἀλεκτορίδων γένος, αἰ λῇς καταμαθεῖν ἀτενές, οὐ τίκτει τέκνα ζῶντʼ, ἀλλʼ ἐπῴζει καὶ ποιεῖ ψυχὰν ἔχειν. τὸ …

Euripides, The Trojan Women 1035: ψόγον τὸ θῆλύ τʼ, εὐγενὴς ἐχθροῖς φανείς.

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.