μίτρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μίτρη (mítrē) — Ionic

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to bind”) or a loan from an Indo-Iranian source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mí.tra/ → /ˈmi.tra/ → /ˈmi.tra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mí.tra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/

Noun

μίτρᾰ • (mítra) f (genitive μίτρᾱς); first declension

1. A metal guard worn round the waist
2. A maiden's girdle
3. (medicine) A surgical bandage
4. A headband, a snood
5. A victor's chaplet at the games
6. A kind of turban

Declension

First declension of ἡ μῐ́τρᾰ; τῆς μῐ́τρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῐ́τρᾰ hē mítra	τὼ μῐ́τρᾱ tṑ mítrā	αἱ μῐ́τραι hai mítrai
Genitive	τῆς μῐ́τρᾱς tês mítrās	τοῖν μῐ́τραιν toîn mítrain	τῶν μῐτρῶν tôn mitrôn
Dative	τῇ μῐ́τρᾳ têi mítrāi	τοῖν μῐ́τραιν toîn mítrain	ταῖς μῐ́τραις taîs mítrais
Accusative	τὴν μῐ́τρᾰν tḕn mítran	τὼ μῐ́τρᾱ tṑ mítrā	τᾱ̀ς μῐ́τρᾱς tā̀s mítrās
Vocative	μῐ́τρᾰ mítra	μῐ́τρᾱ mítrā	μῐ́τραι mítrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• αἰολομίτρης (aiolomítrēs)
• ἄμιτρος (ámitros)
• ἡμίμιτρον (hēmímitron)
• μιτραῖον (mitraîon)
• μιτρηφόρος (mitrēphóros)
• μιτρίον (mitríon)
• μιτρόομαι (mitróomai)
• μιτρώδης (mitrṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: mitra
• → Old Georgian: მიტრაჲ (miṭray)
  • Georgian: მიტრა (miṭra)

References

• “μίτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μίτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μίτρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • band idem, page 60.
  • head-dress idem, page 390.
  • kerchief idem, page 468.
  • snood idem, page 789.
  • turban idem, page 901.
• 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