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μύρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύρον μύρου

Structure: μυρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. any sweet juice distilled from plants and used for unguents or perfumes
  2. unguent, sweet oil, balsam
  3. place where unguents were sold, perfumery
  4. (metaphoric) anything graceful, charming, lovely

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πολυτελὲσ ὄψον ὠνουμένουσ καὶ τὸν οἶνον ἐν τοῖσ συμποσίοισ μετὰ κρόκων τε καὶ ἀρομάτων ἐκχέοντασ, τοὺσ μέσου χειμῶνοσ ἐμπιπλαμένουσ ῥόδων καὶ τὸ σπάνιον αὐτῶν καὶ παρὰ καιρὸν ἀγαπῶντοσ, τῶν δ’ ἐν καιρῷ καὶ κατὰ φύσιν ὡσ εὐτελῶν ὑπερηφανοῦντασ, τούτουσ εἶναι τοὺσ καὶ τὰ μύρα πίνοντασ· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 31:4)
  • ταῦτ’ αὐτὰ γάρ τοι κἄσθ’ ἃ σώσειν προσδοκῶ, τὰ κροκωτίδια καὶ τὰ μύρα χαἰ περιβαρίδεσ χἤγχουσα καὶ τὰ διαφανῆ χιτώνια. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 2:1)
  • ἔτι καὶ παῖδεσ ὡραῖοι ἦσαν πολλοὶ καὶ γυναῖκεσ ἁβρόταται καὶ μύρα καὶ οἶνοσ ἀνθοσμίασ καὶ τράπεζα ὑπὲρ τὰσ ἐν Σικελίᾳ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 3:2)
  • "ὁρῶ γὰρ καὶ τοὺσ παῖδασ ἤδη φέροντασ ἡμῖν στεφάνουσ καὶ μύρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 8 2:6)
  • περιενεγκόντων δὲ τῶν παίδων ἐν ἀλαβάστοισ καὶ ἄλλοισ χρυσοῖσ σκεύεσιν μύρα, νυστάζοντα τὸν Κύνουλκον θεασάμενόσ τισ πολλῷ τῷ μύρῳ τὸ πρόσωπον ἐπέχρισεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 341)
  • οἱ πίνοντεσ τὸν διυλισμένον οἶνον καὶ τὰ πρῶτα μῦρα χριόμενοι καὶ οὐκ ἔπασχον οὐδὲν ἐπὶ τῇ συντριβῇ Ἰωσήφ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Amos 6:6)

Synonyms

  1. unguent

  2. anything graceful

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