English Explanatory Dictionary

kourotrophos

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
name
  1. divine epithet meaning "concerned with child-rearing"
  2. Ancient Greek goddess whose functions pertained to child-rearing

Word forms

kourotrophos kourotrophoi

Etymology

Presumably from Kourotrophos, itself from Ancient Greek κουροτρόφος (kourotróphos). Assigned by Elizabeth B. French, c. 1970

Related words

kourotrophos
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