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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)
  • 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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