Γενέτειραν

ancestress

Translated by Jennifer Benedict24 Jun 2002Vetting: high5 revisions

6 words

[Meaning] mother. [A term used] poetically.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Γενέτειραν· μητέρα. ποιητικῶς.

Betacode

*gene/teiran: mhte/ra. poihtikw=s.

Same entry in Photius and elsewhere. The headword is in the accusative case here, so quoted from somewhere.
Used also by Pindar, Nemean 7.2 (nominative case: web address 1), and some later writers, for mythological or figurative motherhood.