θῆλυς, θήλεια, θῆλυ:
Epic dialect feminine θήλεα, accusative plural -εας[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.269 (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has regular _feminine_ θήλεια 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.7, +others, but also θῆλυς as _feminine_, 10.216, +others, as in other poets, see below): _Ionic dialect_ _feminine_ θήλεα, θήλεαν, θηλέης, θηλέῃ, _plural_ θήλεαι, θηλέας, θηλέων, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus and 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus: _genitive_ θήλυδος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1054 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; accusative feminine θηλείην uncertain reading in [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 42, _neuter_ _plural_ θήλεια 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1068: _Epic dialect_ also θηλύτερος indicating opposition rather than comparison (compare ἀρρέντερος); θηλύτεραι δὲ γυναῖκες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.520; θηλύτεραι δὲ θεαί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.324; μάτε ἐρσεναιτέραν μάτε θηλυτέραν “Schwyzer” 424 (Elis, 4th c.BC)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in late Prose θηλύτερος, -ύτατος occur as comparative and superlative (see. below 11): (θη- 'suckle', compare θῆσαι):—female, θήλεια θεός a goddess, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ἥρη θῆλυς ἐοῦσα being female,[[ 19.97, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1231, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1062, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 621 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θήλειαι ἵπποι mares, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.636, etc.; σύες θήλειαι sows, 14.16 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὄϊς θῆλυς a ewe, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.216; θήλεια μῆλα 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1068 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θήλεια ἔλαφος a hind, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 3.29; θήλεα κάμηλος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.102 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ θ. ἵππος[[ [prev. work] 86; θ. ὄρνις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 477 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ζῷα θ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 110c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄπαις θήλεος γόνου without female issue, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.66; θῆλυς σπορά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 659; θήλειαι γυναῖκες [prev. author] “Or.” 1205; θ. κόραι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 764d: with _masculine_ nouns, ὁ θῆλυς ὀρεύς] Refs 5th c.BC+] the she-mule, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 577b22; ἄνθρωπος θῆλυς [prev. author] “PA” 688b31: _masculine_ _plural_, θήλεις χοροί 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 1.8D.; but μὴ εἶναι θεοὺς ἄρρενας μηδὲ θηλείας 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 12. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]