μήτρα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(A), Ion. [[μήτρη]], ἡ, ([[μήτηρ]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[womb]], Hp.''Prorrh.''2.24, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.108 (dub.l.), Pl.''Ti.''91d, etc.: also in plural, Hp.''Loc.Hom.''47, ''Vict.''1.30, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] [[l.c.]]: the [[cervix]] including the [[orifice]] of the [[womb]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''510b14.<br><span class="bld">2</span> a [[swine]]'s [[matrix]], reckoned a great [[dainty]], μήτρας τόμοις Telecl.1.14; μήτραν… πωλοῦσιν, ἥδιστον κρέας Antiph.220; ὑπὲρ μήτρας… [[ἀποθανεῖν]] Alex.193, cf. Plu.2.733e, Ath.3.96f.<br><span class="bld">3</span> metaph., [[source]], [[origin]], D.L.7.46; μῆτραι τῆς ψυχῆς Ph.1.441.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[core]], [[heartwood]] of [[tree]]s, Thphr.''HP''1.6.1.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[diseased condition]] of the [[wood]], 'soft-wood', ib.2.7.3.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[queen-wasp]], opp. [[ἐργάται]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''627b32,al.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> <b class="b3">μ. χελωνίων, χελωνίοις</b>, [[bolt]]s for [[lock]]s, ''BGU'' 1028.20,26 (ii A.D.); <b class="b3">μ. θύρας</b>, = [[repagulum]], Gloss.(B), ἡ, in plural,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[register of house-property]], at [[Tarsus]] and [[Soli]], Arist. in ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''1802.58; sg., = [[κλῆρος]], at [[Tarsus]] and [[Soli]], Clitarch. ap.[[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] (Cf. Skt. mātrā '[[measure]]' and [[ἐρεσιμήτρη]].)