μητρυιά
Ancient Greek
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Also see the formation of the Hellenistic πατρυιός (patruiós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛː.tryː.ǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me̝.tryˈa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mi.tryˈa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mi.tryˈa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mi.triˈa/
Noun
μητρυιά̄ • (mētruiá̄) f (genitive μητρυιά̄ς); first declension
- stepmother
Declension
First declension of ἡ μητρυιᾱ́; τῆς μητρυιᾶς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μητρυιᾱ́ hē mētruiā́ | τὼ μητρυιᾱ́ tṑ mētruiā́ | αἱ μητρυιαί hai mētruiaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μητρυιᾶς tês mētruiâs | τοῖν μητρυιαῖν toîn mētruiaîn | τῶν μητρυιῶν tôn mētruiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μητρυιᾷ têi mētruiâi | τοῖν μητρυιαῖν toîn mētruiaîn | ταῖς μητρυιαῖς taîs mētruiaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μητρυιᾱ́ν tḕn mētruiā́n | τὼ μητρυιᾱ́ tṑ mētruiā́ | τᾱ̀ς μητρυιᾱ́ς tā̀s mētruiā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | μητρυιᾱ́ mētruiā́ | μητρυιᾱ́ mētruiā́ | μητρυιαί mētruiaí | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “μητρυιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μητρυιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μητρυιά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Noun
μητρυιά • (mitryiá) f
- etymological, not simplified spelling of μητριά (mitriá) [1]
References
- Proposed etymological spelling with a note at Georgios Babiniotis (2002), “μητρυιά”, in Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας: […] [Dictionary of the New Greek Language] (in Greek), 2nd edition, Athens: Kentro Lexikologias, →ISBN.