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μήτηρ
μήτηρ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Noun
μήτηρ • (mḗtēr) f (genitive μητέρος or μητρός); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μήτηρ | τὼ μητέρε | αἱ μητέρες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μητέρος, μητρός | τοῖν μητέροιν | τῶν μητέρων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μητέρῐ, μητρῐ́ | τοῖν μητέροιν | ταῖς μητρᾰ́σῐ(ν) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μητέρᾰ | τὼ μητέρε | τᾱ̀ς μητέρᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῆτερ | μητέρε | μητέρες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Greek: μητέρα (mitéra)
References
- 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.