μηρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Compare Latin membrum (“limb”) and Proto-Germanic *mimzą (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛː.rós/ → /miˈros/ → /miˈros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛː.rós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me̝ˈros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /miˈros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /miˈros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈros/

Noun

μηρός • (mērós) m (genitive μηροῦ); second declension

1. a thigh
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.190
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.231
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.125
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.3.6
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 15.27.11
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus 2
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Kings 16.14
   • 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Supplementary Fragments 11.6
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 135–136
2. a thigh-bone, a femur, used especially of thigh-bones with flesh offered in sacrifice
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.305
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 57
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 18.2.472
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.460
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1011
   • 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 130
   • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace
3. (in the plural, generally) leg-bones
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.103

Declension

Second declension of ὁ μηρός; τοῦ μηροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μηρός ho mērós	τὼ μηρώ tṑ mērṓ	οἱ μηροί hoi mēroí
Genitive	τοῦ μηροῦ toû mēroû	τοῖν μηροῖν toîn mēroîn	τῶν μηρῶν tôn mērôn
Dative	τῷ μηρῷ tôi mērôi	τοῖν μηροῖν toîn mēroîn	τοῖς μηροῖς toîs mēroîs
Accusative	τὸν μηρόν tòn mērón	τὼ μηρώ tṑ mērṓ	τοὺς μηρούς toùs mēroús
Vocative	μηρέ mēré	μηρώ mērṓ	μηροί mēroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• μῆρα (mêra)
• μηρία (mēría)

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲙⲏⲣⲟⲥ (mēros)
• Greek: μηρός (mirós)

References

• “μηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μηρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μηρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3382 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• μηρός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hip idem, page 400.
  • thigh idem, page 866.

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Greek

Etymology

Inherited from the Ancient Greek μηρός (mērós).

Noun

μηρός • (mirós) m (plural μηροί)

1. (anatomy) thigh
2. haunch

Declension

Declension of μηρός

	singular	plural
nominative	μηρός •	μηροί •
genitive	μηρού •	μηρών •
accusative	μηρό •	μηρούς •
vocative	μηρέ •	μηροί •

Synonyms

• (haunch): μπούτι n (boúti)