μύρον
Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 12 August 2015
Etymology
A Kulturwort which spread to various other languages, of disputed origin:[1]
- Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *smer- (“to anoint, smear”), along with σμύρις (smúris, “emery”), and connected with Proto-Indo-European *smérus (“grease”) (whence Old High German smero (“fat, smear”)); however, this cannot explain the υ (u) in the Greek form.
- From μύρω (múrō, “to flow, trickle”) according to the Ancients, and from μύρρα (múrrha, “sweet cicely; myrrh”) according to Athenaeus. Thus, 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 • (mŭ́ron) n (genitive μῠ́ρου); second declension
- any sweet juice distilled from plants and used for unguents or perfumes
- unguent, sweet oil, perfume, balsam
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μῠ́ρον tò mŭ́ron |
τὼ μῠ́ρω tṑ mŭ́rō |
τᾰ̀ μῠ́ρᾰ tằ mŭ́ră | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μῠ́ρου toû mŭ́rou |
τοῖν μῠ́ροιν toîn mŭ́roin |
τῶν μῠ́ρων tôn mŭ́rōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μῠ́ρῳ tōî mŭ́rōi |
τοῖν μῠ́ροιν toîn mŭ́roin |
τοῖς μῠ́ροις toîs mŭ́rois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ μῠ́ρον tò mŭ́ron |
τὼ μῠ́ρω tṑ mŭ́rō |
τᾰ̀ μῠ́ρᾰ tằ mŭ́ră | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῠ́ρον mŭ́ron |
μῠ́ρω mŭ́rō |
μῠ́ρᾰ mŭ́ră | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μῠρηρός (mŭrērós)
- μῠρῐστῐκός (mŭrĭstĭkós)
- μῠρόχρῑστος (mŭrókhrīstos)
- μῠροφόρος (mŭrophóros)
- μυρώδης (murṓdēs)
Descendants
- Aramaic:
- → Classical Syriac: ܡܘܪܘܢ (mūrōn)
- → English: muron
- → Georgian: მირონი (mironi)
- → Old Armenian: միւռոն (miwṙon)
- Armenian: մյուռոն (myuṙon)
- → Old East Slavic: мѵро (müro)
- → Romanian: mir
- →⇒ Serbo-Croatian: miris
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μύρον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 983
Further reading
- “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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.