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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

  • Ταῦτ’ εἰποῦσα παρῆγεν αὐτὸν πρὸσ τὸν Λάβανον, καὶ γνωρισθεὶσ ὑπὸ τοῦ μήτρωοσ αὐτόσ τε ἀδεὴσ ἦν ἐν φίλοισ γενόμενοσ κἀκείνοισ πολλὴν ἡδονὴν παρεῖχεν ἀδοκήτωσ ἐπιφανείσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 385:1)

Related

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

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