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μητρικός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: mētrikos

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)
  • εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν τροῦλλον, ἐν τῇ ἀναλήψει ἐκ γῆς ἀνελθὼν πατρικόν σου πρὸς θρόνον, τὸν μητρικόν σου, σῶτερ, οἶκον δεικνύεις πηγὴν νοητὴν κρειττόνων χαρισμάτων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 1101)

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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