μύρον
Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 12 August 2015
Etymology
From μύρω (múrō) according to the Ancients, and from μύρρα (múrrha) according to Athenaeus. Probably a foreign borrowing; compare Hebrew מֹר (mōr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mý.ron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ron/
Noun
μῠ́ρον • (múron) n (genitive μῠ́ρου); second declension
- any sweet juice distilled from plants and used for unguents or perfumes
- unguent, sweet oil, perfume, balsam
- Archilochus, Collected Works 27
- place where unguents were sold, perfumery
- Aristophanes, The Knights I375
- (metaphoric) anything graceful, charming, lovely
- Palatine Anthology 5.90
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ μῠ́ρον; τοῦ μῠ́ρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μῠ́ρον tò múron | τὼ μῠ́ρω tṑ múrō | τᾰ̀ μῠ́ρᾰ tà múra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῠ́ρου toû múrou | τοῖν μῠ́ροιν toîn múroin | τῶν μῠ́ρων tôn múrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῠ́ρῳ tôi múrōi | τοῖν μῠ́ροιν toîn múroin | τοῖς μῠ́ροις toîs múrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μῠ́ρον tò múron | τὼ μῠ́ρω tṑ múrō | τᾰ̀ μῠ́ρᾰ tà múra | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠ́ρον múron | μῠ́ρω múrō | μῠ́ρᾰ múra | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μῠρηρός (murērós)
- μῠρῐστῐκός (muristikós)
- μῠρόχρῑστος (murókhrīstos)
- μῠροφόρος (murophóros)
- μυρώδης (murṓdēs)
Descendants
- Aramaic:
- → Classical Syriac: ܡܘܪܘܢ (mūrōn)
- → Georgian: მირონი (mironi)
- → Old Armenian: միւռոն (miwṙon)
- Armenian: մյուռոն (myuṙon)
- → Old East Slavic: мѵро (müro)
- → Russian: ми́ро (míro)
- → Romanian: mir
- →⇒ Serbo-Croatian: miris
References
- “μύρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μύρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3464 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- balm idem, page 60.
- balsam idem, page 60.
- essence idem, page 283.
- nard idem, page 550.
- oil idem, page 572.
- ointment idem, page 572.
- perfume idem, page 607.
- salve idem, page 732.
- scent idem, page 738.
- unguent idem, page 920.