μαιόομαι,
={μαιεύομαι},
__1 of a midwife, deliver a woman, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Jovem” 35, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 16.2, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.999c; ὑμέας ἀφροσύνη μαιώσατο, τόλμα δ᾽ ἔτικτε “Anthologia Graeca” 9.80 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); ἐμαιώσαντο νέον τόκον Εἰλείθυιαι “IG” 14.967 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of Hephaestus at the birth of Athena, [[ 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 19 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: absolutely, practise midwifery, [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.80: in _passive_ sense, ὑφ᾽ ἧς μαιωθεῖσα 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 1.4.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 of the mother, to be delivered of, ἣν.. οὐ μαιώσατο μήτηρ [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Coluthus Epicus 181, compare 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 4.437, etc. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II of a nurse, suckle, μαζῷ τινα [[[prev. work] 8.186. ] Refs]
__III active only late, of dawn bringing forth day, [[ 6th c.AD: Joannes Gazaeus 1.58. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]