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

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
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
(in the plural, generally) leg-bones
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.103

Second declension of ὁ μηρός; τοῦ μηροῦ

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μηρός	τὼ μηρώ	οἱ μηροί
Genitive	τοῦ μηροῦ	τοῖν μηροῖν	τῶν μηρῶν
Dative	τῷ μηρῷ	τοῖν μηροῖν	τοῖς μηροῖς
Accusative	τὸν μηρόν	τὼ μηρώ	τοὺς μηρούς
Vocative	μηρέ	μηρώ	μηροί
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
«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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hip idem, page 400.
- thigh idem, page 866.

Inherited from the Ancient Greek μηρός ‎(mērós).

μηρός • ‎(mirós) m ‎(plural μηροί)

declension of μηρός