"μαῖα" meaning in Ancient Greek

See μαῖα in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /mâi̯.a/, /ˈmɛ.a/, /ˈme.a/, /mâi̯.a/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈmɛ.a/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈmɛ.a/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈme.a/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈme.a/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: Possibly the same root as μήτηρ (mḗtēr). Etymology templates: {{unk|grc|notext=1}} Head templates: {{grc-noun|μαίᾱς|f|first|head=μαῖᾰ}} μαῖᾰ • (maîa) f (genitive μαίᾱς); first declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|μαῖᾰ|ᾱς}} Forms: μαῖᾰ [canonical], maîa [romanization], μαίᾱς [genitive], Attic declension-1 [table-tags], ἡ μαῖᾰ [nominative, singular], τὼ μαίᾱ [dual, nominative], αἱ μαῖαι [nominative, plural], τῆς μαίᾱς [genitive, singular], τοῖν μαίαιν [dual, genitive], τῶν μαιῶν [genitive, plural], τῇ μαίᾳ [dative, singular], τοῖν μαίαιν [dative, dual], ταῖς μαίαις [dative, plural], τὴν μαῖᾰν [accusative, singular], τὼ μαίᾱ [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς μαίᾱς [accusative, plural], μαῖᾰ [singular, vocative], μαίᾱ [dual, vocative], μαῖαι [plural, vocative]
  1. midwife Categories (topical): Occupations
    Sense id: en-μαῖα-grc-noun-KrH2-BCj Disambiguation of Occupations: 64 13 23 Categories (other): Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension: 41 27 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 33 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 37 27
  2. foster mother, nurse
    Sense id: en-μαῖα-grc-noun-jY5lR-6G Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 31 41 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 33 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 37 27
  3. good mother, dame
    Sense id: en-μαῖα-grc-noun-DQ~EQRBF Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 33 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 37 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: μαιεύομαι (maieúomai) 
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "maieúomai",
      "word": "μαιεύομαι"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "notext": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "unk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly the same root as μήτηρ (mḗtēr).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "μαῖᾰ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maîa",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μαίᾱς",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-1",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ μαῖᾰ",
      "roman": "hē maîa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ μαίᾱ",
      "roman": "tṑ maíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἱ μαῖαι",
      "roman": "hai maîai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς μαίᾱς",
      "roman": "tês maíās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν μαίαιν",
      "roman": "toîn maíain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν μαιῶν",
      "roman": "tôn maiôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ μαίᾳ",
      "roman": "têi maíāi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν μαίαιν",
      "roman": "toîn maíain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς μαίαις",
      "roman": "taîs maíais",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν μαῖᾰν",
      "roman": "tḕn maîan",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ μαίᾱ",
      "roman": "tṑ maíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς μαίᾱς",
      "roman": "tā̀s maíās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μαῖᾰ",
      "roman": "maîa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μαίᾱ",
      "roman": "maíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μαῖαι",
      "roman": "maîai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "μαίᾱς",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "first",
        "head": "μαῖᾰ"
      },
      "expansion": "μαῖᾰ • (maîa) f (genitive μαίᾱς); first declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "μαῖᾰ",
        "2": "ᾱς"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 27 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 33 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 37 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "64 13 23",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "grc:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "midwife"
      ],
      "id": "en-μαῖα-grc-noun-KrH2-BCj",
      "links": [
        [
          "midwife",
          "midwife"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 41 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 33 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 37 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "foster mother, nurse"
      ],
      "id": "en-μαῖα-grc-noun-jY5lR-6G",
      "links": [
        [
          "foster mother",
          "foster mother"
        ],
        [
          "nurse",
          "nurse"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 33 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 37 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "good mother, dame"
      ],
      "id": "en-μαῖα-grc-noun-DQ~EQRBF",
      "links": [
        [
          "mother",
          "mother"
        ],
        [
          "dame",
          "dame"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mâi̯.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛ.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mâi̯.a/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛ.a/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛ.a/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.a/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.a/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "μαῖα"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Ancient Greek 2-syllable words",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension",
    "Ancient Greek first-declension nouns",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek properispomenon terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "grc:Occupations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "maieúomai",
      "word": "μαιεύομαι"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "notext": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "unk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly the same root as μήτηρ (mḗtēr).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "μαῖᾰ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maîa",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μαίᾱς",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-1",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ μαῖᾰ",
      "roman": "hē maîa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ μαίᾱ",
      "roman": "tṑ maíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἱ μαῖαι",
      "roman": "hai maîai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς μαίᾱς",
      "roman": "tês maíās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν μαίαιν",
      "roman": "toîn maíain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν μαιῶν",
      "roman": "tôn maiôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ μαίᾳ",
      "roman": "têi maíāi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν μαίαιν",
      "roman": "toîn maíain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς μαίαις",
      "roman": "taîs maíais",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν μαῖᾰν",
      "roman": "tḕn maîan",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ μαίᾱ",
      "roman": "tṑ maíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς μαίᾱς",
      "roman": "tā̀s maíās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μαῖᾰ",
      "roman": "maîa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μαίᾱ",
      "roman": "maíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μαῖαι",
      "roman": "maîai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "μαίᾱς",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "first",
        "head": "μαῖᾰ"
      },
      "expansion": "μαῖᾰ • (maîa) f (genitive μαίᾱς); first declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "μαῖᾰ",
        "2": "ᾱς"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "midwife"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "midwife",
          "midwife"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "foster mother, nurse"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "foster mother",
          "foster mother"
        ],
        [
          "nurse",
          "nurse"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "good mother, dame"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mother",
          "mother"
        ],
        [
          "dame",
          "dame"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mâi̯.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛ.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mâi̯.a/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛ.a/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛ.a/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.a/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.a/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "μαῖα"
}

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