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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

  • καὶ ποιήσεισ αὐτὸ ἔλαιον χρῖσμα ἅγιον, μύρον μυρεψικὸν τέχνῃ μυρεψοῦ. ἔλαιον χρῖσμα ἅγιον ἔσται. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 30:25)
  • ὡσ μύρον ἐπὶ κεφαλῆσ τὸ καταβαῖνον ἐπὶ πώγωνα, τὸν πώγωνα τοῦ Ἀαρών, τὸ καταβαῖνον ἐπὶ τὴν ᾤαν τοῦ ἐνδύματοσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 132:2)
  • χρίσονται μύρον. ἐν τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ παράδοσ ταῦτα πάντα τοῖσ ἔθνεσιν. ἡ γὰρ βουλὴ αὕτη ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 25:7)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐκείνων καταχέαντεσ μύρον καὶ τὸν στέφανον ἐπιθέντεσ αὐτοὶ πίνουσι καὶ εὐωχοῦνται τὰ παρεσκευασμένα. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 28:4)
  • τὰ δ’ ἄλλα πάντ’ ἐστὶν παρεσκευασμένα, κλῖναι τράπεζαι προσκεφάλαια στρώματα στέφανοι μύρον τραγήμαθ’, αἱ πόρναι πάρα, ἄμυλοι πλακοῦντεσ σησαμοῦντεσ ἴτρια, ὀρχηστρίδεσ, τὰ φίλταθ’ Ἁρμοδίου, καλαί. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode21)
  • καὶ ὀσμὴ μύρων σου ὑπὲρ πάντα τὰ ἀρώματα. μῦρον ἐκκενωθὲν ὄνομά σου. διὰ τοῦτο νεάνιδεσ ἠγάπησάν σε, (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 1:3)
  • πρόσθεν μὲν θάνατόν τ’ εἶχον καὶ δάκρυσι μῦρον, μέσσοι δὲ ξεστοί, περιμήκεεσ, αὐτὰρ ὄπισθε μόρφνοιο φλεγύαο καλυπτόμενοι πτερύγεσσιν. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 11:6)

Synonyms

  1. unguent

  2. anything graceful

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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