μητρυιά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Also see the formation of the Hellenistic πατρυιός (patruiós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛː.tryː.ǎː/ → /mi.tryˈa/ → /mi.triˈa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛː.tryː.ǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me̝.tryˈa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mi.tryˈa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mi.tryˈa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.triˈa/

Noun

μητρυιά̄ • (mētruiá̄) f (genitive μητρυιά̄ς); first declension

1. stepmother

Declension

First declension of ἡ μητρυιᾱ́; τῆς μητρυιᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μητρυιᾱ́ hē mētruiā́	τὼ μητρυιᾱ́ tṑ mētruiā́	αἱ μητρυιαί hai mētruiaí
Genitive	τῆς μητρυιᾶς tês mētruiâs	τοῖν μητρυιαῖν toîn mētruiaîn	τῶν μητρυιῶν tôn mētruiôn
Dative	τῇ μητρυιᾷ têi mētruiâi	τοῖν μητρυιαῖν toîn mētruiaîn	ταῖς μητρυιαῖς taîs mētruiaîs
Accusative	τὴν μητρυιᾱ́ν tḕn mētruiā́n	τὼ μητρυιᾱ́ tṑ mētruiā́	τᾱ̀ς μητρυιᾱ́ς tā̀s mētruiā́s
Vocative	μητρυιᾱ́ mētruiā́	μητρυιᾱ́ mētruiā́	μητρυιαί mētruiaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “μητρυιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μητρυιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μητρυιά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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Greek

Noun

μητρυιά • (mitryiá) f

1. etymological, not simplified spelling of μητριά (mitriá)