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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

  • μύροισ καὶ οἴνοισ καὶ θυμιάμασι τέρπεται καρδία, καταρρήγνυται δὲ ὑπὸ συμπτωμάτων ψυχή. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 27:9)
  • στηρίσατέ με ἐν μύροισ, στοιβάσατέ με ἐν μήλοισ, ὅτι τετρωμένη ἀγάπησ ἐγώ. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 2:5)
  • "Ἔφεσόσ γέ τοι πρότερον, φησί,4 τοῖσ μύροισ διέφερεν καὶ μάλιστα ἐν τῷ μεγαλλείῳ,6 νῦν δὲ οὔ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:29)
  • ἀλλ’ οἱᾶ νύμφη βασιλὶσ ὠνομασμένη μύροισ μεγαλλείοισ τὸ σῶμ’ ἀλείφεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 42 3:5)
  • χρηστέον οὖν, ὦ Κύνουλκε Θεόδωρε, μύροισ παρὰ πότον τοῖσ ἐλάχιστα καροῦν δυναμένοισ, τοῖσ στύφουσιν δὲ καὶ ψύχουσιν ἐπ’ ὀλίγον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 45 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. unguent

  2. anything graceful

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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