mitre

mitre

See also: mitré

English

The evolution of the shape of the mitre.

Stylized mitres are often found in ecclesiastical heraldry.

Alternative forms

• miter (American)

Etymology

From Middle English mytre, from Old French mitre, from Ancient Greek μίτρα (mítra, “headband, turban”). Its use in reference to a counterfeit coin derived from the bishop's mitre stamped upon it. Doublet of Mithras, Mithra, Mitra, and Mehr.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪtəɹ/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧tre
• Rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

mitre (plural mitres)

1. A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.
2. The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
3. (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
4. A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
5. A gusset in sewing, etc.
6. (geometry, rare) A square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside.

Translations

a covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries

Armenian: խույր (hy) (xuyr) Basque: mitra Belarusian: мітра f (mitra) Bulgarian: митра f (mitra) Catalan: mitra f Chinese: Mandarin: 主教冠 (zh) (zhǔjiàoguàn) Czech: infule f, mitra f Danish: mitra c Dutch: mijter (nl) m Esperanto: mitro Finnish: hiippa (fi) French: mitre (fr) f Galician: mitra (gl) f Georgian: მიტრა (miṭra) German: Mitra f Greek: μίτρα (el) f (mítra) Hungarian: mitra (hu), püspöksüveg (hu), süveg (hu) Ido: mitro (io) Irish: mítéar m Italian: mitra (it) f Japanese: ミトラ (ja) (mitora) Korean: 주교관 (jugyogwan) Latvian: mitra f Lithuanian: mitra f Macedonian: митра f (mitra) Norwegian: mitra Old Norse: mítr n, mítra f Polish: mitra (pl) f Portuguese: mitra (pt) f Romanian: mitră (ro) f Russian: митра (ru) (mitra) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: митра f Roman: mitra (sh) f Slovak: mitra f Slovene: mitra (sl) f Spanish: mitra (es) f Swedish: mitra (sv) c Tagalog: mitra Turkish: mitre Ukrainian: митра f (mytra) Welsh: meitr m

See also

• (13th-c. counterfeit coin): pollard, rosary, crockard, leonine, scalding, steeping, eagle
• alb
• epigonation
• epimanikion
• epitrachelion
• maniple
• omophorion
• rhason
• sakkos
• sticharion
• zone

Verb

mitre (third-person singular simple present mitres, present participle mitring, simple past and past participle mitred) (Commonwealth)

1. To adorn with a mitre.
2. To unite at an angle of 45°.

Anagrams

• Terim, ermit, merit, miter, remit, timer

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French

Noun

mitre f (plural mitres)

1. mitre

Further reading

• “mitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tre/
• Rhymes: -itre
• Hyphenation: mì‧tre

Noun

mitre f

1. plural of mitra

Anagrams

• merti, metri, termi, timer, tremi

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Middle English

Noun

mitre

1. Alternative form of mytre