wife

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substantive

P. and V. γυνή, ἡ, Ar. and V. ἄλοχος, ἡ V. σύνευνος, ἡ, ἄκοιτις, ἡ, σύλλεκτρος, ἡ, εὖνις, ἡ, δάμαρ, ἡ, συνευνέτις, ἡ, συνάορος, ἡ, ὁμευνέτις, ἡ, συζυγός, ἡ, εὐνάτειρα, ἡ, εὐνήτρια, ἡ.

take to wife, verb transitive: P. λαμβάνω, λαμβάνειν; see marry.

have to wife: P. and V. ἔχειν (Thuc. 2, 29, Dem. 949; Eur., Iphigenia in Aulis 701).

old wives' tales: P. γραῶν ὕθλος, ὁ (Plato, Theaetetus 176B); see also nonsense.