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name
divine epithet meaning "concerned with child-rearing"
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Greek
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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name
Ancient Greek goddess whose functions pertained to child-rearing
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Greek
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Any of a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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History
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κουροτρόφος (kourotróphos, “rearing boys” or “bringing up boys”).
Presumably from Kourotrophos, itself from Ancient Greek κουροτρόφος (kourotróphos). Assigned by Elizabeth B. French, c. 1970
