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|Definition=τερος and τρος, ἡ: Dor., Arc., Boeot. Δαμάτηρ; also Δημήτρα Buresch <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[Aus Lydien]]<span class="bibl">69</span>: acc. <b class="b3">Δημήτραν</b> Epigr. ap. <span class="bibl">Paus.1.37.2</span>: gen. Δαμάτρας <span class="title">IG</span>7.2793 (Copae); Aeol. Δωμάτηρ Hoffmann [[Griechische Dialekte]] 2.153 (Aegae); Thess. dat. Δαμμάτερι <span class="title">IG</span>9(2).1235:—[[Demeter]], <span class="bibl">Il.2.696</span>, al., once in <span class="bibl">Od., 5.125</span>, <b class="b2">h.Cer</b>., etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> appell., as a name for [[bread]], <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">H.</span>3.463</span>; cf. <b class="b3">ἀκτή, καρπός</b>. (Variously expld. by Gramm. as, = [[Γημήτηρ]], [[δημομήτηρ]], or from <b class="b3">δηαί</b>, = [[κριθαί]], cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>265.54</span>.)</span>

|etymtx=<b class="b3">-τερος</b> and <b class="b3">-τρος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: the Greek mother goddess (Il.). See further Schwyzer 567f., Sommer Nominalkomp. 147,<br />Dialectal forms: Though one might expect the name in Myc., it happens not to be found. <b class="b3">Δαμάτηρ</b> (Dor. etc.), also <b class="b3">Δωμάτηρ</b>, <b class="b3">Δαμμάτερι</b> (Thess.),<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">Δημήτριος</b> <b class="b2">belonging to D.</b> (A.), also as PN, from which the months name <b class="b3">Δημητριών</b> (Attica); <b class="b3">Δημητρίεια</b> pl. [[feast for Demeter]] (Samos IVa; after <b class="b3">Ἀσκληπίεια</b> a.o.), <b class="b3">Δημήτρια</b> pl. also [[feast for Demetrios]]; <b class="b3">Δημητριασταί</b> N. of the worshippers of Demeter (Ephesos; cf. <b class="b3">Ἀπολλωνιασταί</b> etc.); <b class="b3">Δημητριακός</b> [[belonging to Demeter or Demetrios]] (D. S.); <b class="b3">Δημήτρειοι</b> pl. name of the dead (Plu.). - Denomin. <b class="b3">δαματρίζειν τὸ συνάγειν τὸν Δημητριακὸν καρπόν</b>. <b class="b3">Κύπριοι</b> H. - Short form <b class="b3">Δηώ</b> (h. Cer. etc.) with <b class="b3">Δηῳ̃ος</b> and <b class="b3">Δηωΐνη</b> <b class="b2">daughter of D.</b>.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: By Kretschmer Wien. Stud. 24, 523ff., Glotta 17, 240 taken as "Mother Earth", from <b class="b3">δᾶ</b>, a kind of [[Lallwort]], perhaps Pre-Greek [[Earth]], and <b class="b3">μάτηρ</b>. There is however, no indication that [[δᾶ]] (s.v.) means [[earth]] (though it has also been assumed in the name Poseidon). Nach Ehrlich Betonung 62ff. (with Fraenkel Lexis 3, 50ff.), from <b class="b3">&#42;Δασ-μάτηρ</b>, from IE <b class="b2">&#42;dm̥s-</b>, gen. of <b class="b2">&#42;dem-</b> [[house]] (cf. <b class="b3">δεσπότης</b>); rightly rejected by Kretschmer Glotta 6, 294. Pisani IF 53, 28ff. and Georgiev Urgriechen und Illyrier (Sofia 1937) 9ff., 20ff. consider the word, like <b class="b3">Δαμία</b>, <b class="b3">Δμία</b> etc. as Illyrian and compare Alb. [[dhe]] [[earth]] (s. <b class="b3">χθών</b>); rejected by Kretschmer Glotta 27, 31. Acc. to Carnoy Mélanges Bidez 71ff. <b class="b3">Δη-</b> is only a different development of <b class="b3">γῆ</b>. Cf. Fraenkel Glotta 3, 58f. (also on <b class="b3">Δαμία</b>, <b class="b3">Μνία</b>); diff. on these words (to <b class="b3">δόμος</b> etc.) Danielsson Eranos 1, 79f. - Cf. Messap. [[damatura]], prob. name of a goddess (Krahe Sprache der Illyr. 1, 82); the Mess. word must be an adaptation of the Greek name; cf. <b class="b3">Δειπάτυρος</b> s. <b class="b3">Ζεύς</b>). - Heubeck, Praegraeca 75-8 starts from `Phryg.' <b class="b3">Γδαν-μαυα</b>\/<b class="b3">Γδανμαα</b>, and sees in the first element a cognate of Gr. <b class="b3">χθών</b>; he suggests that the form <b class="b3">Δω(μ-</b>) goes back on <b class="b2">&#42;ghdhon-</b>. However, he connects the whole with his Minoan-Minyan hypothesis (a separate IE language), which is unconvincing. - On Demeter Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1, 456ff.