Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μήτρη ‎(mḗtrē) (Ionic)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /mítra/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mítra/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mítɾa/

Noun

μήτρα • ‎(mḗtra) f ‎(genitive μήτρας); first declension

1. womb
   1. paunch, rumen
   2. (figuratively) source, origin
2. the pith or heart of wood
3. a queen wasp

Inflection

Antonyms

• (queen): ἐργάται ‎(ergátai, “worker”)

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «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.
  • matrix idem, page 518.
  • queen-bee idem, page 664.
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Noun

μήτρα • ‎(mítra) f ‎(plural μήτρες)

1. (anatomy) womb
2. (mathematics) matrix
3. mold (anything around or on which something is formed or shaped)

Declension

Related terms

• εκτυπωτής μήτρας m ‎(ektypotís mítras, “dot matrix printer”)
• μητρομανής m ‎(mitromanís)

• and see: μητέρα f ‎(mitéra, “mother”)

Synonyms

• (mould): καλούπι n ‎(kaloúpi)

External links

• μήτρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el