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θῆλυν (thelyn)

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

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1032: βόθρον ὀρύξασθαι περιηγέα· τῷ δʼ ἔνι θῆλυν

Plato, Laws 2.665: … μήν; ἆρʼ οὖν ἡμῖν τά γε ἔμπροσθεν ὁμολογεῖται; τοῦ πέρι; τὸ δεῖν πάντʼ ἄνδρα καὶ παῖδα, ἐλεύθερον καὶ δοῦλον, θῆλύν τε καὶ ἄρρενα, καὶ ὅλῃ τῇ πόλει ὅλην τὴν πόλιν αὐτὴν αὑτῇ ἐπᾴδουσαν μὴ παύεσθαί ποτε ταῦτα ἃ διεληλύθαμεν, ἁμ …

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.