μηρός

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”).

μηρός • (mērós) m (genitive μηροῦ); second declension

1. 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
   1. (Septuagint Koine, in the plural) loins
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 45.26
   2. (Septuagint Koine) side
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Kings 16.14
2. 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
3. (in the plural, generally) leg-bones
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.103

• μῆρα (mêra)
• μηρία (mēría)

• → Coptic: ⲙⲏⲣⲟⲥ (mēros)
• Greek: μηρός (mirós)

• “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.

Inherited from the Ancient Greek μηρός (mērós).

• IPA^(key): /miˈɾos/

μηρός • (mirós) m (plural μηροί)

1. (anatomy) thigh
2. haunch

• (haunch): μπούτι n (boúti)