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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to bind”) or a loan from an Indo-Iranian source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mí.tra/ → /ˈmi.tra/ → /ˈmi.tra/
Noun
μίτρᾰ • (mítra) f (genitive μίτρᾱς); first declension
- A metal guard worn round the waist
- A maiden's girdle
- (medicine) A surgical bandage
- A headband, a snood
- A victor's chaplet at the games
- A kind of turban
Declension
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References
- “μίτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μίτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μίτρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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