θῠγάτηρ [ᾰ], ἡ,
genitive θυγᾰτέρος contraction θυγατρό; dative θυγᾰτέρι, θυγατρί; accusative θυγᾰτέρα Epic dialect θύγατρα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.13 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; vocative θύγᾰτερ: nominative plural θυγατέρες, Epic dialect and Lyric poetry θύγατρες [[ 9.144, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 20a. 16] Refs 7th c.BC+]: genitive plural -τέρων [[“IG” 22.832.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 461c, poetry -τρῶν: _dative_ _plural_ -τράσι] Refs 5th c.BC+] Epic dialect -τέρεσσι[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.197 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; both sets of forms are found in poetry, θυγατρός, -τρί, -τράσι are used in Prose:—daughter, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.148, 290, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.4, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θύγατρες ἵππων, of mules, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; θ. ταύρων, of bees, Philo Tars. cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.269: _metaphorically_, Μοισᾶν θυγατέρες, of Odes, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλάστιγξ ἡ χαλκοῦ θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 1.9D. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. Σειληνοῦ, of the vine, [[ 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Caesares” 25 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; ψήφου συμβολικῆς θ., of a λάγυνος, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 6.248 (Marc. argument) ] Refs]; of villages dependent on a city, [[ LXX.Judg.1.27, LXX.1Mac.5.8. ] LXX]
__II later, maidservant, slave, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Phalaris Epistolographus “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 142.3 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]. [ῡ in Epic dialect in the longer forms, for the sake of meter] (Cf. Sanskrit duhitár-, Engl. daughter, etc.)