μᾶτερ (mater)

μᾶτερ is an Ancient Greek form of μήτηρ, meaning “mother”. It is the vocative singular feminine noun.

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.30: … χέα πλοῦτον, Ζήνων, σὺν πολιῷ σεμνὸς ἐπισκυνίῳ· ἄρσενα γὰρ λόγον εὗρες, ἐνηθλήσω δὲ προνοίᾳ αἵρεσιν, ἀτρέστου ματέρʼ ἐλευθερίας· εἰ δὲ πάτρα Φοίνισσα, τίς ὁ φθόνος; οὐ καὶ ὁ Κάδμος κεῖνος, ἀφʼ οὗ γραπτὰν Ἑλλὰς ἔχει σελίδα; καὶ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 9.15: Αἴτνα μᾶτερ ἐμά, κἠγὼ καλὸν ἄντρον ἐνοικέω

Euripides, Ion 893: κραυγὰν Ὦ μᾶτέρ μʼ αὐδῶσαν

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.