μήτρα
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̌ː.traː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme̝.tra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tra/
Noun
μήτρᾱ • (mḗtrā) f (genitive μήτρᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μήτρᾱ hē mḗtrā |
τὼ μήτρᾱ tṑ mḗtrā |
αἱ μῆτραι hai mêtrai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μήτρᾱς tês mḗtrās |
τοῖν μήτραιν toîn mḗtrain |
τῶν μητρῶν tôn mētrôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μήτρᾳ têi mḗtrāi |
τοῖν μήτραιν toîn mḗtrain |
ταῖς μήτραις taîs mḗtrais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μήτρᾱν tḕn mḗtrān |
τὼ μήτρᾱ tṑ mḗtrā |
τᾱ̀ς μήτρᾱς tā̀s mḗtrās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μήτρᾱ mḗtrā |
μήτρᾱ mḗtrā |
μῆτραι mêtrai | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “queen”): ἐργάται (ergátai, “worker”)
Descendants
References
- “μήτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μήτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μήτρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3388 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- μήτρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Pronunciation
Noun
μήτρα • (mítra) f (plural μήτρες)
- (anatomy) womb
- (mathematics) matrix
- mold (anything around or on which something is formed or shaped)
Declension
declension of μήτρα
Synonyms
- (mould): καλούπι n (kaloúpi)
Related terms
- εκτυπωτής μήτρας m (ektypotís mítras, “dot matrix printer”)
- μητρομανής m (mitromanís)
- and see: μητέρα f (mitéra, “mother”)
Descendants
Further reading
μήτρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
