Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.rearing children, rare in lit. sense, “γυνὴ νεοτόκος καὶ κ.” Aret. CA2.3: usu. metaph., ἀγαθὴ κ. good nursing-mother, of Ithaca, Od. 9.27, cf. Pi.Fr.109; “κ. Ἑλλάς” E.Tr.566 (lyr., s.v.l.); Ἀπόλλωνος κ., of Delos, Call.Del.2, 276: freq. as epith. of goddesses, as Hecate, Hes.Th.450; “Ἄρτεμις” D.S.5.73; “Λοχία” Supp.Epigr.3.400.9 (Delph., iii B. C.); of the Roman goddess Rumina, Plu.2.278d; esp. of Aphrodite, Hom.Epigr.12; called ἡ K. alone, IG12.840.9, Ar.Th.299, Pl. Com.174.7, Luc.DMeretr.5.1; αἱ πύλαι αἱ κατὰ Κουροτρόφον, at Delos, IG11(2).203A46 (iii B. C.):—in form Κουροτρόπος , ὁ (sc. μήν), name of Acarnanian month, ib.5(1).29.11 (Sparta).