μηρός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *mḗron, of uncertain ultimate origin. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Compare Latin membrum (“limb”) and Proto-Germanic *mimzą (“flesh”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛː.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me̝ˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /miˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /miˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /miˈros/
Noun
μηρός • (mērós) m (genitive μηροῦ); second declension
- a thigh
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.190
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.231
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.125
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.3.6
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 15.27.11
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus 2
- 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Supplementary Fragments 11.6
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 135–136
- (Septuagint Koine, plural) loins
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 45.26
- (Septuagint Koine) side
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Kings 16.14
- a thigh-bone, a femur, used especially of thigh-bones with flesh offered in sacrifice
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.305
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 57
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 18.2.472
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.460
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1011
- 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 130
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace
- (in the plural, generally) leg-bones
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.103
Declension
Second declension of ὁ μηρός; τοῦ μηροῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μηρός ho mērós | τὼ μηρώ tṑ mērṓ | οἱ μηροί hoi mēroí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μηροῦ toû mēroû | τοῖν μηροῖν toîn mēroîn | τῶν μηρῶν tôn mērôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μηρῷ tôi mērôi | τοῖν μηροῖν toîn mēroîn | τοῖς μηροῖς toîs mēroîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μηρόν tòn mērón | τὼ μηρώ tṑ mērṓ | τοὺς μηρούς toùs mēroús | ||||||||||
Vocative | μηρέ mēré | μηρώ mērṓ | μηροί mēroí | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- μῆρα (mêra)
- μηρία (mēría)
Descendants
- → Coptic: ⲙⲏⲣⲟⲥ (mēros)
- Greek: μηρός (mirós)
References
- “μηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μηρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μηρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3382 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- μηρός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hip idem, page 400.
- thigh idem, page 866.
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from the Ancient Greek μηρός (mērós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈɾos/
Noun
μηρός • (mirós) m (plural μηροί)
- (anatomy) thigh
- haunch
Declension
declension of μηρός
case \\ number | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | μηρός • | μηροί • |
genitive | μηρού • | μηρών • |
accusative | μηρό • | μηρούς • |
vocative | μηρέ • | μηροί • |
Synonyms
- (haunch): μπούτι n (boúti)