Μαῖα

See also: μαία and μαῖα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Μαίη (Maíē) — Ionic
• Μαιᾱ́ς (Maiā́s)

Etymology

Literally “Lady”, from μαῖα (maîa, “lady”), an honorific term for older women and a nursery form of μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) (from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mâi̯.a/ → /ˈmɛ.a/ → /ˈme.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mâi̯.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈme.a/

Proper noun

Μαῖᾰ • (Maîa) f (genitive Μαίᾱς); first declension

1. Maia, daughter of Atlas

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Μαῖᾰ; τῆς Μαίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Μαῖᾰ hē Maîa
Genitive	τῆς Μαίᾱς tês Maíās
Dative	τῇ Μαίᾳ têi Maíāi
Accusative	τὴν Μαῖᾰν tḕn Maîan
Vocative	Μαῖᾰ Maîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Μαία (Maía)
• → English: Maia
• → Latin: Maia

References

• “Μαῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Μαῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
• Μαῖα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette