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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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ τοὺσ μητρῴουσ μὲν δαίμονασ ἐπιβοώμενον μὰ τὸν Δί’ οὐ σφόδρα ᾐτιώμην ὅτε δὲ καὶ τοὺσ πατρῴουσ ἐπεκαλέσατο, ἀναμνησθεὶσ τῶν περὶ τοῦ φόνου εἰρημένων οὐδὲ κατέχειν ἠδυνάμην τὸν γέλωτα. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 17:2)
  • Αἰνείασ δὲ σώσασ μὲν τοὺσ πατρῴουσ καὶ μητρῴουσ θεούσ, σώσασ δὲ καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν πατέρα, δόξαν εὐσεβείασ ἐξηνέγκατο, ὥστε καὶ οἱ πολέμιοι μόνῳ ἐκείνῳ ὧν ἐκράτησαν ἐν Τροίᾳ ἔδοσαν μὴ συληθῆναι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 16:1)

Related

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

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