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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine form of πενθερός (pentherós, “father-in-law”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pen.tʰe.rǎː/ → /pen.θeˈra/ → /pen.θeˈra/
Noun
πενθερᾱ́ • (pentherā́) f (genitive πενθερᾱ́ς); first declension
- mother-in-law
Inflection
Descendants
References
Further reading
- πενθερά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πενθερά 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
- “πενθερά”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “πενθερά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πενθερά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- G3994 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
πενθερά • (pentherá) f (plural πενθερές, masculine πενθερός)
- Alternative form of πεθερά (petherá)
Declension