μηρία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μηρί’ (mērí’) – apocopic
Etymology
From the root of μῆρα (mêra) and μηρός (mērós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛː.rí.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me̝ˈri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /miˈri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /miˈri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /miˈri.a/
Noun
μηρίᾰ • (mēría) n pl (genitive μηρῐ́ων); second declension
- Synonym of μῆρα (mêra)
Declension
Second declension of τᾰ̀ μηρῐ́ᾰ; τῶν μηρῐ́ων (Attic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τᾰ̀ μηρῐ́ᾰ tà mēría | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν μηρῐ́ων tôn mēríōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τοῖς μηρῐ́οις toîs mēríois | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾰ̀ μηρῐ́ᾰ tà mēría | ||||||||||||
Vocative | μηρῐ́ᾰ mēría | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “μηρία”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μηρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μηρία in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μηρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- thigh idem, page 866.