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κουρ-ίζω (A), (κοῦρος A) intr.,
A.to be a youth, “σάκος . . , ὃ κουρίζων φορέεσκε” Od.22.185, cf. A.R.1.195; to be a girl, Id.3.666; “παῖς ἔτι -ίζουσα” Call.Dian.5, cf. Arat.32.
2. cry like a babe, Call.Jov. 54.
3. of dolphins, κ. ἑὸν σθένος attain the strength of youth, Opp. H.1.664.
II. trans., bring up from boyhood or to manhood, “ἄνδρας” Hes.Th.347.
III. κουρίζεσθαι: ὑμεναιοῦσθαι, Hsch.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 347
    • Homer, Odyssey, 22.185
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.195
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.666
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