Of natural origin ("mammy"); a grandmother -- grandmother.
1. in the earlier Greek writings mother (the name infants use in addressing their mother).
2. in the later writings ((Philo), Josephus, Plutarch, Appian, Herodian, Artemidorus Daldianus) equivalent to τήθη, grandmother (see Lob. ad Phryn., pp. 133-135 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 25)): 2 Timothy 1:5; 4 Macc. 16:9.