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Ancient Greek
Etymology
If related to μυδάω (mudáō, “to be damp, dripping”), which is formally proximate, this word originally denoted the molten, flowing metal mass as opposed to the hard iron. However, the technical meaning and the variant σμύδρος (smúdros) rather suggest a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mý.dros/ → /ˈmy.ðros/ → /ˈmi.ðros/
Noun
μῠ́δρος • (mŭ́dros) m (genitive μῠ́δρου); second declension
- metal or iron mass roasted in fire
- anvil of stone or metal
- Synonym: ἄκμων (ákmōn)
- red hot iron in the hands, as an ordeal
- stone thrown out by a volcano, lapillus
- red hot stone throw in a liquid to vaporize it
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Further reading
- “μύδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μύδρος 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