kourotrophic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to the goddess Kourotrophos.
adj
Relating to the rearing of youths, especially in the context of Ancient Greece.
Example Sentences
- "Virgin goddesses had no interest in exerting their powers in this way. Instead, the Greeks made them interact with mortal men in a kourotrophic capacity: rather than functioning as sexual partners, they became nurturing guardians of young men approaching adulthood or protectors of male heroes."
Etymology
From Kourotrophos + -ic.