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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛː.té.ra/ → /miˈte.ra/ → /miˈte.ra/
Noun
μητέρα • (mētéra)
- accusative singular of μήτηρ (mḗtēr)
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”), from Proto-Hellenic *mā́tēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.
Pronunciation
Noun
μητέρα • (mitéra) f (plural μητέρες, masculine πατέρας)
- mother
- η μητέρα του μαθητή ― i mitéra tou mathití ― the student's mother
- (figuratively) mother (the first example of something)
- η μητέρα των κοινοβουλίων ― i mitéra ton koinovoulíon ― the mother of parliaments
- (figuratively, colloquial) mother (something that is the greatest of its kind)
Ήταν μητέρα των μαχών.- Ítan mitéra ton machón.
- It was the mother of battles.
Declension
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
- see: Appendix:Greek vocabulary/Family
- (Katharevousa) μητρότης f (mitrótis, “motherhood, maternity”)
- (Katharevousa) μητρυιά f (mitryiá, “stepmother”)
- μήτρα f (mítra, “womb”)
- μητριαρχία f (mitriarchía, “matriarchy”)
- μητρική κάρτα f (mitrikí kárta, “motherboard”)
- μητρικός (mitrikós, “motherly”)
- μητροκτονία f (mitroktonía, “matricide”)
- μητροκτόνος m or f (mitroktónos, “matricide”)
- μητρότητα f (mitrótita, “motherhood, maternity”)
Further reading
- “μητέρα”, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998