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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a Semitic source akin to Arabic مُرّ (murr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”), Hebrew מור / מֹר (mōr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mýr̥.r̥aː/ → /ˈmyr.ra/ → /ˈmi.ra/
Noun
μύρρᾱ • (múrrhā) f (genitive μύρρᾱς); first declension
- myrrh
- Synonym: σμύρνα (smúrna)
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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 and vocative plural form of μύρρο (mýrro).