Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /mýron/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mýron/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /míɾon/

Noun

μύρον • ‎(múron) n ‎(genitive μύρου); second declension

1. any sweet juice distilled from plants and used for unguents or perfumes
2. unguent, sweet oil, balsam
   • Archilochus, Collected Works 27
   1. place where unguents were sold, perfumery
      • Aristophanes, The Knights I375
   2. (metaphoric) anything graceful, charming, lovely
      • Palatine Anthology 5.90

Inflection

Derived terms

• μυριστικός ‎(muristikós)

Descendants

• Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܡܘܪܘܢ ‎(mūrōn)
• Georgian: მირონი ‎(mironi)
• Old Armenian: միւռոն ‎(miwṙon)
  • Armenian: մյուռոն ‎(myuṙon)
• Russian: миро ‎(miro)
• Serbo-Croatian: miris

References

• μύρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μύρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μύρον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G3464”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • balm idem, page 60.
  • balsam idem, page 60.
  • essence idem, page 283.
  • nard idem, page 550.
  • oil idem, page 572.
  • ointment idem, page 572.
  • perfume idem, page 605.
  • salve idem, page 732.
  • scent idem, page 738.
  • unguent idem, page 920.
• LSJ 8th edition