μίτρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μίτρη (mítrē) – Ionic
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to bind”) or a loan from an Indo-Iranian source.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mí.tra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tra/
Noun
μίτρᾰ • (mítra) f (genitive μίτρᾱς); first declension
- A metal guard worn round the waist
- A maiden's girdle
- (medicine) A surgical bandage
- A headband, a snood
- A victor's chaplet at the games
- A kind of turban
Declension
First declension of ἡ μῐ́τρᾰ; τῆς μῐ́τρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μῐ́τρᾰ hē mítra | τὼ μῐ́τρᾱ tṑ mítrā | αἱ μῐ́τραι hai mítrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μῐ́τρᾱς tês mítrās | τοῖν μῐ́τραιν toîn mítrain | τῶν μῐτρῶν tôn mitrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μῐ́τρᾳ têi mítrāi | τοῖν μῐ́τραιν toîn mítrain | ταῖς μῐ́τραις taîs mítrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μῐ́τρᾰν tḕn mítran | τὼ μῐ́τρᾱ tṑ mítrā | τᾱ̀ς μῐ́τρᾱς tā̀s mítrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῐ́τρᾰ mítra | μῐ́τρᾱ mítrā | μῐ́τραι mítrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- αἰολομίτρης (aiolomítrēs)
- ἄμιτρος (ámitros)
- ἡμίμιτρον (hēmímitron)
- μιτραῖον (mitraîon)
- μιτρηφόρος (mitrēphóros)
- μιτρίον (mitríon)
- μιτρόομαι (mitróomai)
- μιτρώδης (mitrṓdēs)
Descendants
- Latin: mītra
References
- μίτρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μίτρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μίτρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- band idem, page 60.
- head-dress idem, page 390.
- kerchief idem, page 468.
- snood idem, page 789.
- turban idem, page 901.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN