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μητρῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μητρῷος

Structure: μητρῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. for mhtrw/ios (which occurs in Od.)

Sense

  1. of a mother, a mother's, maternal, a mother's right.
  2. the temple of Cybele

Examples

  • οὐκ ἀγνοεῖτε δὲ τὰ τῆσ ἀδελφότητοσ φίλτρα, ἅπερ ἡ θεία καὶ πάνσοφοσ πρόνοια διὰ τῶν πατέρων τοῖσ γενομένοισ ἐμέρισε καὶ διὰ τῆσ μητρῴασ φυτεύσασα γαστρόσ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 13:19)
  • Κληρονομοῦσι δὲ τῆσ μητρῴασ οἱ παῖδεσ ὀργῆσ καὶ τοῦ μύσουσ ἔννοιαν λαμβάνοντεσ ὡσ πολέμιον ὑφεώρων τὸν πατέρα, καὶ τὸ πρότερον μὲν ἐπὶ Ῥώμησ παιδευόμενοι, πλέον δ’ ὡσ εἰσ Ιοὐδαίαν ὑπέστρεψαν· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 636:1)
  • βασιλεὺσ δὲ τῆσ μητρῴασ τόλμησ καὶ τὸν υἱὸν ἠμύνατο· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 844:2)

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

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