mitre

See also: mitré

English

Etymology

From Middle English mytre, from Old French mitre, from Ancient Greek μίτρα (mítra, “headband, turban”). Its use in reference to a counterfeit coin derived from the bishop's mitre stamped upon it.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪtəɹ/
• Hyphenation: mi‧tre
• Rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

mitre (plural mitres)

1. A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.

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2. (heraldry) A heraldic representation of this covering, usually displayed on top of a bishop's or archbishop's coat of arms.
3. The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
4. (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
5. A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
6. A gusset in sewing, etc.

Translations

a covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries

• Armenian: խույր (hy) (xuyr)
• Basque: mitra
• Belarusian: мітра f (mitra)
• Bulgarian: митра f (mitra)
• Catalan: mitra f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主教冠 (zh) (zhǔjiàoguàn)

• Czech: infule f, mitra f
• Danish: mitra c
• Dutch: mijter (nl) m
• Esperanto: mitro
• Finnish: hiippa (fi)
• French: mitre (fr) f
• Galician: mitra (gl) f
• Georgian: მიტრა (miṭra)
• German: Mitra f
• Greek: μίτρα (el) f (mítra)
• Hungarian: mitra (hu), püspöksüveg (hu), süveg (hu)
• Ido: mitro (io)
• Italian: mitra (it) f
• Japanese: ミトラ (ja) (mitora)

• Korean: 주교관 (jugyogwan)
• Latvian: mitra f
• Lithuanian: mitra f
• Macedonian: митра f (mitra)
• Norwegian: mitra
• Old Norse: mítr n, mítra f
• Polish: mitra (pl) f
• Portuguese: mitra (pt) f
• Romanian: mitră (ro) f
• Russian: митра (ru) (mitra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: митра f

  Roman: mitra (sh) f

• Slovak: mitra f
• Slovene: mitra f
• Spanish: mitra (es) f
• Swedish: mitra (sv) c
• Tagalog: mitra
• Turkish: mitre
• Ukrainian: митра f (mytra)
• Welsh: meitr m

See also

• (13th-c. counterfeit coin): pollard, rosary, crockard, leonine, scalding, steeping, eagle
• alb
• epigonation
• epimanikion
• epitrachelion
• maniple
• omophorion
• rhason
• sakkos
• sticharion
• zone

Verb

mitre (third-person singular simple present mitres, present participle mitring, simple past and past participle mitred) (Commonwealth of Nations)

1. To adorn with a mitre.
2. To unite at an angle of 45°.

Anagrams

• ermit, merit, miter, remit, timer

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Italian

Noun

mitre f

1. plural of mitra

Anagrams

• metri
• termi
• timer
• tremi

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Middle English

Noun

mitre

1. Alternative form of mytre