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μύρρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύρρα

Structure: μυρρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: aeolic for smu/rna.

Sense

Declension

First 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

  • "μύρρα γὰρ ἡ σμύρνα παρ’ Αἰολεῦσιν, ἐπειδὴ τὰ πολλὰ τῶν μύρων διὰ σμύρνησ ἐσκευάζετο καὶ ἥ γε στακτὴ καλουμένη διὰ μόνησ ταύτησ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:8)
  • τό τε πέλαγοσ τὸ κατὰ τὴν Κιλικίαν καὶ Παμφυλίαν διαπλεύσαντεσ κατήλθαμεν εἰσ Μύρρα τῆσ Λυκίασ. (, chapter 19 293:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ μῖμοσ εἰσάγεται, καθ’ ὃν σταυροῦται ληφθεὶσ ἡγεμών, ὅ τε ὀρχηστὴσ δρᾶμα εἰσάγει Κινύραν, ἐν ᾧ αὐτόσ τε ἐκτείνετο καὶ ἡ θυγάτηρ Μύρρα, αἷμά τε ἦν τεχνητὸν πολὺ καὶ περὶ τὸν σταυρωθέντα ἐκκεχυμένον καὶ τῶν περὶ τὸν Κινύραν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 108:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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