μήτρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μήτρη (mḗtrē) — Ionic

Etymology

From μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.traː/ → /ˈmi.tra/ → /ˈmi.tra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.traː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme̝.tra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/

Noun

μήτρᾱ • (mḗtrā) f (genitive μήτρᾱς); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μήτρᾱ; τῆς μήτρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μήτρᾱ hē mḗtrā	τὼ μήτρᾱ tṑ mḗtrā	αἱ μῆτραι hai mêtrai
Genitive	τῆς μήτρᾱς tês mḗtrās	τοῖν μήτραιν toîn mḗtrain	τῶν μητρῶν tôn mētrôn
Dative	τῇ μήτρᾳ têi mḗtrāi	τοῖν μήτραιν toîn mḗtrain	ταῖς μήτραις taîs mḗtrais
Accusative	τὴν μήτρᾱν tḕn mḗtrān	τὼ μήτρᾱ tṑ mḗtrā	τᾱ̀ς μήτρᾱς tā̀s mḗtrās
Vocative	μήτρᾱ mḗtrā	μήτρᾱ mḗtrā	μῆτραι mêtrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Antonyms

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

Descendants

• Greek: μήτρα (mítra)
  • → Albanian: mitër
• → Classical Syriac: ܡܛܪܐ, ܡܝܛܪܐ (mêṭrā)

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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • matrix idem, page 518.
  • queen-bee idem, page 664.

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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

Declension of μήτρα

	singular	plural
nominative	μήτρα •	μήτρες •
genitive	μήτρας •	μητρών •
accusative	μήτρα •	μήτρες •
vocative	μήτρα •	μήτρες •

Synonyms

• (mould): καλούπι n (kaloúpi)

Related terms

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

Descendants

• → Albanian: mitër

Further reading

• μήτρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el