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                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
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                    "description": "<b>ας (ἡ) :<br\/>   I<\/b> mère, <i>t. de respect ou d’affection à l’égard des femmes âgées,<\/i> OD. <i>19, 482 ;<\/i> HH. <i>Cer. 147 ; cf<\/i>. COM. AR. <i>Eccl. 915 ; particul. :<\/i><br\/><b>      1<\/b> mère, ESCHL. <i>Ch. 45 ;<\/i> EUR. <i>Alc. 393 ;<\/i><br\/><b>      2<\/b> <i>chez les Dor<\/i>. grand mère, JAMBL. <i>V. Pyth. 11, 56 ;<\/i><br\/><b>      3<\/b> nourrice, SOPH. <i>fr. 782 ;<\/i> EUR. <i>Hipp. 243, 311 ;<\/i> ANTIPH. <i>fr. 159, 6 Kock ;<\/i><br\/><b>      4<\/b> accoucheuse, sage-femme, PLAT. <i>Theæt. 149<\/i> a ;<br\/><b>   II<\/b> sorte de crabe, ARSTT. <i>H.A. 4, 2, 3, etc<\/i>.<p style='color:darkblue'><b>Étym<\/b>. <i>élargissement de<\/i> μᾶ <i>avec le suff<\/i>. -ϳα, <i>formé par analog. avec<\/i> γραῖα ; <i>cf. lat<\/i>. maia, sage-femme ; <i>v. la notice s. v<\/i>. μήτηρ.<\/p>"
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                    "reference": "Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1940)",
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                    "description": "ἡ, <b>good mother<\/b>, form of address to old women, Hom. (only in <i>Od.<\/i>), always in voc., usu. addressed to Eurycleia, the nurse of Odysseus, <i>Od.<\/i> 19.482, al. ; but also to Eurynome the ταμίη, 17.499; hence not only of nurses, cf. <i>h.Cer.<\/i> 147, Ar. <i>Ec.<\/i> 915 (lyr.). later, <b>foster-mother<\/b>, E. <i>Hipp.<\/i> 243 (anap.), Antiph. 159.6; also, a true <b>mother<\/b>, μαῖα δὴ κάτω βέβακεν E. <i>Alc.<\/i> 393 (lyr.); <i>metaph<\/i>, of the earth, ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα A. <i>Ch.<\/i> 44 (lyr.), cf. S. <i>Fr.<\/i> 959.<br\/><b>midwife<\/b>, Pl. <i>Tht.<\/i> 149a, Isyll. 54, Sor. 2.3, al., etc.<br\/><b>lady doctor<\/b>, Gal. 14.641. in Dor., <b>grandmother<\/b>, Iamb. <i>VP<\/i> 11.56, IG 12(3).1120 (Melos).<br\/><b>large kind of crab<\/b>, Arist. <i>HA<\/i> 525b4, al.<br\/>a plant, = λεπίδιον, Orib. <i>Fr.<\/i> 102.<br\/>(Prob. from same Root as μήτηρ.)"
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                    "dictionary": "Pape",
                    "reference": "Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)",
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                    "description": "ἡ, eigtl. <i>die Amme<\/i>, Eur. <i>Hipp<\/i>. 243, 311 ; bei Hom. freundliche, ehrende Anrede an ältere Frauen, bes. an solche, die Wärterinnen, Ammen der Kinder gewesen sind, <i>liebes Mütterchen<\/i>, im voc., <i>Od<\/i>. 2.349, 19.482 u. öfter Anrede an die Eurykleia ; <i>H.h. Cer<\/i>. 147 ; ἰὼ Γαῖα μαῖα, Aesch. <i>Ch<\/i>. 43, wie μᾶ γᾶ, <i>Mutter Erde<\/i> ; vgl. Eur. <i>Alc<\/i>. 394.<br\/>Bei den Doriern = <i>Großmutter<\/i>, Iambl. <i>v. Pyth<\/i>. 11.56 ; – <i>die Hebamme<\/i>, Plat. <i>Theaet<\/i>. 149a ff.; <i>VLL<\/i>.<br\/>Bei Arist. <i>H.A<\/i>. 4.2 <i>eine große Art Meerkrebs<\/i>. – S. auch nom. pr."
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                    "description": "1. <b>good mother, dame <\/b>, (Odyssey by Homer) <br\/>2. <b>a fostermother, nurse <\/b>, (Euripides):—;also <b>a <\/b> true <b>mother <\/b>, (Aeschulus Tragicus) <br\/>3. <b>a midwife <\/b>, (Plato Philosophus) (ML)"
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