μύρρα
See also: Μύρρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a Semitic source akin to Arabic مُرّ (murr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”), Hebrew מור / מֹר (mōr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mýr̥.r̥aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmyr.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmyr.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmyr.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ra/
Noun
μύρρᾱ • (múrrhā) f (genitive μύρρᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μύρρᾱ hē múrrhā |
τὼ μύρρᾱ tṑ múrrhā |
αἱ μύρραι hai múrrhai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μύρρᾱς tês múrrhās |
τοῖν μύρραιν toîn múrrhain |
τῶν μυρρῶν tôn murrhôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μύρρᾳ tēî múrrhāi |
τοῖν μύρραιν toîn múrrhain |
ταῖς μύρραις taîs múrrhais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μύρρᾱν tḕn múrrhān |
τὼ μύρρᾱ tṑ múrrhā |
τᾱ̀ς μύρρᾱς tā̀s múrrhās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μύρρᾱ múrrhā |
μύρρᾱ múrrhā |
μύρραι múrrhai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μυρρίς (murrhís)
- μυρρίτης (murrhítēs)
Descendants
- → Latin: myrrha
References
- “μύρρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύρρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μύρρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Noun
μύρρα • (mýrra) f
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of μύρρο (mýrro)