μήτηρ,
Doric dialect μάτηρ, ἡ: though paroxytone in nominative, it follows πατήρ in the accent of the indirect cases, genitive μητερος contraction μητρός, dative μητέρι, μητρί, both forms being found in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], but the longer forms rarely in Trag. exc. Lyric poetry, as ματέρος [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 539; ματέρι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1481 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μητέρος in iambics, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 843, “Or.” 580, “Rh.” 393: _accusative_ always μητέρα, μητέρας: _vocative_ μῆτερ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—mother, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.351, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of animals, dam,[[ 17.4, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.414 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a mother-bird, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.313 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of queen bees, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 553a29, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ ματρὸς φίλας, ἐκ ματρός, from one's mother's womb, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.114, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 422 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, mother and grandmother, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Agis” 9 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; as an address to elderly women, ὦ μῆτερ [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.37, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.60, etc.: in titles, μ. πατρίδος] Refs 3rd c.BC+], = Mater Patriae, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 58.2 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; μ. τῶν ἀηττήτων στρατοπέδων, = Mater invictorum castrorum, of Julia Domna, [[ “BGU” 362 xi 16 (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__2 of lands, μ. μήλων, θηρῶν, mother of flocks, of game, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.696, 8.47, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently of Earth, γῆ πάντων μ. [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 563; πὰρ μέσον ὀμφαλὸν εὐδένδροιο.. ματέρος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.74; γῆ μήτηρ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 16, etc.; ὦ γαῖα μῆτερ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 601 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡ Μήτηρ, ={Δημήτηρ}, τῇ Μητρὶ καὶ τῇ Κούρῃ ὁρτὴν ἄγουσι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.65 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of Rhea, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.78; ὦ Πὰν.., Ματρὸς μεγάλας ὀπαδέ [prev. author] “fragment” 95, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1355 (Lyric poetry); μ. ὀρεία 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 746 (Lyric poetry); Γαλλαὶ μητρὸς ὀρείης φιλόθυρσοι δρομάδες “Lyrica Adespota” 121; M. θεῶν “SIG” 1044.8 (Halic., 4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; as title of Isis, [[ “PPetr.” 3p.2 (compare p.xi) (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]