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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

  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐλεύθεροσ οὗτοσ, ὦ Μητρόδωρ, ἐστὶν ἀλλ’ ἀνελεύθεροσ καὶ ἀνάγωγοσ, καὶ οὐδὲ μάστιγοσ ἐλευθέρασ δεόμενοσ, ἀλλὰ τῆσ ἀστραγαλωτῆσ ἐκείνησ, ᾗ τοὺσ Γάλλουσ πλημμελοῦντασ ἐν τοῖσ Μητρῴοισ κολάζουσιν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 33 1:1)
  • ἐχρῶντο γὰρ αὐτῇ οὐ μόνον κατὰ τὴν κροῦσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ τὸ μέλοσ ἐν τοῖσ Μητρῴοισ καὶ ἔν τισὶ τῶν Φρυγίων. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 19 6:1)
  • καὶ αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν Ὄλυμπον ἐκεῖνον, ᾧ δὴ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆσ Ἑλληνικῆσ τε καὶ νομικῆσ μούσησ ἀποδιδόασι, τό τε τῆσ ἁρμονίασ γένοσ ἐξευρεῖν φασι, καὶ τῶν ῥυθμῶν τόν τε προσοδιακὸν ἐν ᾧ ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεωσ νόμοσ, καὶ τὸν χορεῖον ᾧ πολλῷ κέχρηται ἐν τοῖσ Μητρῴοισ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 292)

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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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