1. Μητρυιά · Mētryia — Chantraine
The corpus record
μητρυιά
metruia
où μητρυιώδης (Plu.), μητρυιάζω «se comporter en marâtre » (Gloss.) ; d
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Where it lives
- Against Diogeiton 1 · 5.91/10k
- Ion 3 · 3.28/10k
- Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
- Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k
- Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. μητρυι-ά · mētryi-a — LSJ
stepmother, Il. 13.697, Pi. P. 4.162, E. Alc. 305, Pl. Lg. 930b, etc.
metaph., from the proverbial unkindness of stepmothers, Is. 12.5; ἐδικαίευ εἶναι καὶ τῷ ἔργῳ μ., i. e. not only in name, but in reality, Hdt. 4.154; ἀλλότε μητρυιὴ πέλει ἡμέρη, ἀλλότε μήτηρ, of unlucky and lucky days, Hes. Op. 825; μ. νεῶν, of a dangerous coast, A. Pr. 727; τρεφόμενοι οὐχ ὑπὸ μητρυιᾶς ἀλλʼ ὑπὸ μητρὸς τῆς χώρας (sc. τῆς Ἀττικῆς) Pl. Mx. 237b, cf. Plu. Apophth.reg. 2.201e. (Cf. Arm. mauru ‘stepmother’, OE. módrie ‘motherʼs sister’.)
In the wild
- μητρυιὰ · mētryia Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 721–727
- μητρυιὰς · mētryias Euripides, Ion 1025 (DIORISIS sentence 700)
- μητρυιαῖς · mētryiais Euripides, Ion 1330 (DIORISIS sentence 863)
- μητρυιὰν · mētryian Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 805)
- μητρυιὴ · mētryiē Herodotus, Histories 4.154.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5029)
- μητρυιὴ · mētryiē Works and Days 825
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. μητρυιά (scan p. 715; entry #5291).
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