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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative μητρῷος μητρῷα μήτρῳον
Genitive μητρῴου μητρῴης μητρῴου
Dative μητρῴῳ μητρῴῃ μητρῴῳ
Accusative μητρῷον μητρῷαν μήτρῳον
Vocative μητρῷε μητρῷα μήτρῳον
DualN/A/V μητρῴω μητρῴᾱ μητρῴω
G/D μητρῴοιν μητρῴαιν μητρῴοιν
PluralNominative μητρῷοι μητρῷαι μήτρῳα
Genitive μητρῴων μητρῳῶν μητρῴων
Dative μητρῴοις μητρῴαις μητρῴοις
Accusative μητρῴους μητρῴᾱς μήτρῳα
Vocative μητρῷοι μητρῷαι μήτρῳα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective μητρῷος μητρῴου μητρῳότερος μητρῳοτέρου μητρῳότατος μητρῳοτάτου
Adverb μητρῴως μητρῳότερον μητρῳότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἱ δ’ ἄρα μητρῴησ ἐρατῆσ ἀίοντεσ ἐφετμῆσ φοιτητῆρεσ Ἔρωτεσ ἐπερρώοντο τιθήνῃ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 152)

Related

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

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