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γυνὴ τροφῖτις

From LSJ

Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24

Translations

wet nurse

Arabic: ظِئْر‎, دَايَة‎; Gulf Arabic: داية‎; Armenian: ծծմայր, ստնտու; Belarusian: кармі́целька; Bulgarian: кърмачка, дойка; Catalan: dida, dida seca, nodrissa; Chinese Mandarin: 乳母, 奶媽/奶妈; Czech: kojná; Danish: amme; Dutch: zoogmoeder, min; Esperanto: nutristino; English: wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse; Estonian: amm; Faroese: bróstmóðir; Finnish: imettäjä; French: nourrice; Galician: ama, ama de leite; German: Säugamme, Amme; Greek: τροφός, παραμάνα; Ancient Greek: αἶα, ἀμμά, ἀμμία, βαΐα, βυζάστρια, γάλα, γαλοῦχος, γυνὴ τροφῖτις, θηλάστρια, τηθή, τήθη, τιθήνη, τίτθη, τροφῖτις, τροφός; Gurani: دایانە‎; Hebrew: מֵינֶקֶת‎; Hungarian: szoptatós, dajka; Icelandic: brjóstmóðir; Irish: banaltra chíche, bean oiliúna, bean altrama; Italian: balia; Japanese: 乳母; Khmer: មេដោះ; Korean: 유모(乳母); Kurdish Central Kurdish: دایان‎, دایەن‎; Northern Kurdish: dayan, dayîn; Latin: nutrix, altrix; Latvian: zīdītāja; Livonian: äm; Macedonian: доилка, дојница; Malay: ibu susuan; Middle English: norice; Mon: မိဂမဴတှ်, ၝဲဂမဴ; Norwegian Bokmål: amme; Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic: баба; Polish: mamka; Portuguese: ama-de-leite; Romanian: doică; Russian: кормилица, мамка; Sardinian Campidanese: dida; Logudorese: tatàya; Sassarese: tadàia; Scottish Gaelic: muime-chìche; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: до̀јӣља; Roman: dòjīlja; Sicilian: mammana, nurrizza; Slovak: kojná, dojka; Slovene: dojílja; Spanish: nodriza; Sranan Tongo: mena; Sundanese: ᮞᮥᮞ᮪ᮒᮨᮁ ᮘᮞᮩᮂ; Swedish: amma; Tagalog: sisiwa, mamay; Thai: แม่นม; Tibetan: ནུ་སྦྱིན་མ་ཚབ; Turkish: sütanne; Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎌𐎐𐎖𐎚; Ukrainian: годувальниця, годівниця, мамка; Vietnamese: vú nuôi; Volapük: sügan, hisügan, jisügan, miligafat, miligamot; Yiddish: אַם‎, זייגערין‎