Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μητρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μητρικός μητρική μητρικόν

Structure: μητρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a mother

Examples

  • οὐδὲ γὰρ τὴν αὐτὴν πατρὶ καὶ μητρί, οὐδ’ αὖ τὴν τοῦ σοφοῦ ἢ τὴν τοῦ στρατηγοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὴν πατρικήν, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ μητρικήν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. of a mother

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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