Μαῖα
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Literally “Lady”, from μαῖα (maîa, “lady”), an honorific term for older women and a nursery form of μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) (from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mâi̯.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.a/
Proper noun
Μαῖᾰ • (Maîa) f (genitive Μαίᾱς); first declension
- Maia, daughter of Atlas
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Μαῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Μαῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
- Μαῖα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette