Μαῖα

See also: μαία and μαῖα

Ancient Greek

Literally “Lady”, from μαῖα (maîa, “lady”), an honorific term for older women and a nursery form of μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) (from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr).

Μαῖᾰ • (Maîa) f (genitive Μαίᾱς); first declension

First declension of ἡ Μαῖᾰ; τῆς Μαίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Μαῖᾰ hē Maîa
Genitive	τῆς Μαίᾱς tês Maíās
Dative	τῇ Μαίᾳ têi Maíāi
Accusative	τὴν Μαῖᾰν tḕn Maîan
Vocative	Μαῖᾰ Maîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“Μαῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Μαῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
Μαῖα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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