μήτηρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *mā́tēr (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀔𐀳𐀩 (ma-te-re), Doric μᾱ́τηρ (mā́tēr)), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Phrygian ματαρ (matar), Old Armenian մայր (mayr), Latin māter, Old Persian 𐎶𐎠𐎫𐎠 (mātā), Avestan 𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭 (mātar), Sanskrit मातृ (mā́tṛ), Old Church Slavonic мати (mati), and Old English mōdor (English mother).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̌ː.tɛːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.ter/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tir/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μήτηρ hē mḗtēr |
τὼ μητέρε tṑ mētére |
αἱ μητέρες hai mētéres | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μητέρος / μητρός tês mētéros / mētrós |
τοῖν μητέροιν toîn mētéroin |
τῶν μητέρων tôn mētérōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μητέρῐ / μητρῐ́ têi mētéri / mētrí |
τοῖν μητέροιν toîn mētéroin |
ταῖς μητρᾰ́σῐ / μητρᾰ́σῐν taîs mētrási(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μητέρᾰ tḕn mētéra |
τὼ μητέρε tṑ mētére |
τᾱ̀ς μητέρᾰς tā̀s mētéras | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῆτερ mêter |
μητέρε mētére |
μητέρες mētéres | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Μητρόδωρος (Mētródōros)
Descendants
- Greek: μητέρα (mitéra)
Further reading
- μήτηρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μήτηρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μήτηρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μήτηρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μήτηρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3384 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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