Translingual

Myrrha octodecimguttata

Proper noun

Myrrha f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Coccinellidae – certain ladybirds.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Myrrha (Metamyrrha), Myrrha (Myrrha) (subgenera)
  • Myrrha octodecimguttata (or Myrrha (Myrrha) octodecimguttata) (species)

English

Birth of Adonis, an engraving by Bernard Picart, et al. for Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book X

Proper noun

Myrrha

1. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, who tricks her father into having sexual intercourse with her and escapes the king's wrath by being transformed into a myrrh tree, later giving birth to Adonis.
   • 1975, Karl Galinsky, Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects, page 89,

     Byblis lies motionless in mute desperation and her transformation is told only briefly, whereas Myrrha herself asks for her metamorphosis, gives a speech (10.483-7), and Ovid leads us step by step through her transformation (10.489-502).

   • 1977, Marcel Detienne, The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology, page 63,

     The resemblance between this Myrrhina and the Myrrha who seduces her father is all the greater in that in one of the versions of the myth of Adonis, his mother is transformed by metamorphosis into not a myrrh tree but a sprig of myrtle.

   • 2006, David M. Robinson, Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-Century, page 175,

     In the succeeding book, Ovid depicts another woman tortured by abnormal but not impossible passion: Myrrha, in love with her father, Cinyras.

Synonyms

• (daughter of Cinyras and mother of Adonis): Smyrna

Finnish

Noun

myrrha

1. (rare) Alternative form of mirha

Declension

Latin

Alternative forms

• murra
• myrra

Noun

myrrha f ‎(genitive myrrhae); first declension

1. Alternative form of murra

Inflection

First declension.

References

• myrrha in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “myrrha”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• myrrha in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• myrrha in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Noun

myrrha f (usually uncountable, plural myrrhas)

1. Obsolete form of mirra.