1. μήτρα · mētra — Beekes
μήτρα 1 ‘uterus. -μήτηρ. μήτρα 2 ‘land-measure, κλῆρος᾽, ““μέτρον. — [Beekes, s.v. μήτρα, p. 1000]
The corpus record
μήτρα
metra1
1 ‘uterus
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Where it lives
- On the Sacred Disease 3 · 6.54/10k
- De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
- Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
- De aere aquis et locis 2 · 2.7/10k
- Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
- Exodus 6 · 2.53/10k
- Judith 2 · 2.28/10k
- Numeri 5 · 2.17/10k
- Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k
- Jeremias 4 · 1.44/10k
- Romans 1 · 1.43/10k
- Genesis 4 · 1.33/10k
Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. μήτρα · mētra — Frisk
1. μήτρα f. “Gebärmutter, Mutterleib, Kernholz, Mark’ 5. μήτηρ. 2. μήτρα f. "Ackermaß, κλῆρος᾽ 5. μέτρον. — [Frisk, s.v. μήτρα, p. 1205]
3. μήτρα · mētra — Frisk
μήτρα 3) von ὕστερος (8.d.), semantisch besser zu aind. ditara- ‘oberer, höherer’ stimmend ; somit letzten Endes von idg. *ud ‘empor, hinauf, hinaus’ als *,,die Hervortretende‘‘? Neben *ud-terä > ὑστέρα steht mit tro-Suffix Öorpos‘ γαστήρ H.; daneben mit ero-Suffix aind. uddram τι. “Bauch”, ὕδερος (s.d.), die aber wegen des damit ablautenden lit. vedaras vielleicht anders zu beurteilen sind, s. WP. 1, 191, Pok. … — [Frisk, s.v. μήτρα, p. 1948]
4. μήτρα · mētra — LSJ
womb, the cervix including the orifice of the womb
womb, Hp. Prorrh. 2.24, Hdt. 3.108 (dub.l.), Pl. Ti. 91d, etc.: also in pl., Hp. Loc.Hom. 47, Vict. 1.30, Hdt. l.c.: the cervix including the orifice of the womb, Arist. HA 510b14.
2 matrix
a swineʼs matrix, reckoned a great dainty, μήτρας τόμοις Telecl. 1.14; μήτραν . . πωλοῦσιν, ἥδιστον κρέας Antiph. 220; ὑπὲρ μήτρας . . ἀποθανεῖν Alex. 193, cf. Plu. QConv. 2.733e, Ath. 3.96f.
3 source, origin
metaph., source, origin, D.L. 7.46; μῆτραι τῆς ψυχῆς Ph. 1.441.
II core, heart-wood
core, heart-wood of trees, Thphr. HP 1.6.1.
b diseased condition
diseased condition of the wood, ‘soft-wood’, ib. 2.7.3.
III queen-wasp
queen-wasp, opp. ἐργάται, Arist. HA 627b32, al.
IV bolts, repagulum
μ. χελωνίων, χελωνίοις, bolts for locks, BGU 1028.20, 26 (ii A.D.); μ. θύρας, = repagulum, Gloss.
In the wild
- μήτραις · mētrais Aristotle, De Somno et Vigilia (DIORISIS sentence 67)
- μήτραν · mētran Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6558)
- μήτρας · mētras Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7163)
- μήτρᾳ · mētrai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7231)
- μήτρῃσι · mētrēisi Herodotus, Histories 3.108.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3702)
- μήτρας · mētras Herodotus, Histories 3.108.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3707)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. μήτρα (scan p. 1000; entry #4080).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. μήτρα (scan p. 716; entry #5297).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. μήτρα (scan p. 1948; entry #5860).
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