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μητέρας (meteras)

μητέρας is an Ancient Greek form of μήτηρ, meaning “mother”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.11: … αιός τέ φησιν ἐν δεκάτῃ Ἱστοριῶν λέγειν αὐτὸν τὰς συνοικούσας ἀνδράσι θεῶν ἔχειν ὀνόματα, Κόρας, Νύμφας, εἶτα Μητέρας καλουμένας. τοῦτον καὶ γεωμετρίαν ἐπὶ πέρας ἀγαγεῖν, Μοίριδος πρώτου εὑρόντος τὰς ἀρχὰς τῶν στοιχείων αὐτῆς, …

Euripides, Suppliants 35: πολιὰς ἄπαιδας τάσδε μητέρας τέκνων,

All forms of μήτηρ (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.