• μᾱ́τηρ (mā́tēr) — Doric
• μᾱ́ταρ (mā́tar) — Arcadocypriot

From Proto-Hellenic *mā́tēr (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀔𐀳𐀩 (ma-te-re), Doric μᾱ́τηρ (mā́tēr)), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Phrygian ματαρ (matar), Old Armenian մայր (mayr), Latin māter, Old Persian 𐎶𐎠𐎫𐎠 (m-a-t-a /⁠mātā⁠/), Avestan 𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭 (mātar), Sanskrit मातृ (mā́tṛ), Old Church Slavonic мати (mati), and Old English mōdor (English mother).

μήτηρ • (mḗtēr) f (genitive μητέρος or μητρός); third declension

1. mother
2. source or origin

• Μητρόδωρος (Mētródōros)
• μητρόπολῐς (mētrópolis)
• Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr)
• μητρομήτωρ or ματρομάτωρ (mētromḗtōr or matromátōr), grandmother from mother's side (literally meaning mother's mother)
• μητροπάτωρ (mētropátōr), grandfather from mother's side (literally meaning father's mother)

• Greek: μητέρα (mitéra)

• “μήτηρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μήτηρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μήτηρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μήτηρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• μήτηρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3384 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dam idem, page 193.
  • matron idem, page 518.
  • mother idem, page 542.