Liddell-Scott-Jones

μαῖα (maia) a midwife ^G:N-F

μαῖα, ἡ,

good mother, form of address to old women, [Refs 8th c.BC+], always in vocative, usually addressed to Eurycleia, the nurse of Odysseus, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence not only of nurses,[Refs 5th c.BC+]

__2 later, foster-mother, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, a true mother, μαῖα δὴ κάτω βέβακεν [Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, of the earth, ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 midwife, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3.b lady doctor, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__4 in Doric dialect, grandmother, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II large kind of crab, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III a plant, ={λεπίδιον}, [Refs 4th c.AD+]