μήτηρ: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[mother]], Hom., etc.; of animals, a dam, Hom.; ἀπό or ἐκ μητρός from one's [[mother]]'s [[womb]], Pind., Aesch.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> also of lands, [[μήτηρ]] μήλων, θηρῶν [[mother]] of flocks, of [[game]], Il.; of [[Earth]], γῆ πάντων μήτηρ Hes.; γῆ [[μήτηρ]] Aesch.; ὦ [[γαῖα]] μῆτερ Eur.:—also ἡ Μάτηρ [[alone]] for [[Δημήτηρ]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> of one's [[native]] [[land]], μᾶτερ ἐμά, Θήβα Pind., etc.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> poet. as the [[source]] of events, μήτηρ ἀέθλων, of [[Olympia]], Pind.; [[night]] is the [[mother]] of day, Aesch.; the [[grape]] of [[wine]], Aesch.