μυρωδία
See also: μυρωδιά
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μερωδία (merōdía), μυρωδιά (murōdiá)
Etymology
From the Hellenistic adjective μυρώδης (murṓdēs) + -ία (-ía).
Noun
μυρωδία • (murōdía) f (Byzantine)
- fragrance
- unguent
- smell (of food)
- spice
- sweet smell, things that smell nicely (like flowers)
- Synonym: εὐωδία (euōdía)
- (figuratively) something very beautiful (of a woman)
Descendants
- > Greek: μυρωδιά (myrodiá) (inherited) from the form μυρωδιά (murōdiá)
- > Italiot Greek: mirodìa (inherited)
- > Pontic Greek: μυρωδία (myrodía) (inherited)
- → Bulgarian: мерудия (merudija), меродия (merodija)
- → Laz: მერგჲა (mergya), მეროჯა (meroǯa)
- → Macedonian: мирудија (mirudija), миродија (mirodija)
- → Romanian: mirodie
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: миро̀ђија, миро̀дија
- Latin: miròđija, miròdija
References
- μυρωδία 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
- μυρωδία - Kriaras, Emmanuel (vol.1 1969-) Επιτομή του Λεξικού της Μεσαιωνικής Ελληνικής Δημώδους Γραμματείας [Concise Dictionary of Medieval Vulgar Greek Literature (1100–1669) Vols. I–XIV] (in Greek), Online edition
- Lampe, G. W. H. (1961), “μυρωδία”, in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 890a